Négrette is a dark red wine

Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

 grape

Grape

A grape is a non-climacteric fruit, specifically a berry, that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, molasses and grape seed oil. Grapes are also...

 grown primarily in South West France

South West France (wine region)

South West France or in French Sud-Ouest, is a wine region in France covering several wine-producing areas situated respectively inland from, and south of, the wine region of Bordeaux...

 in the region between Albi and Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

. It is a direct descendant of Mavro

Mavro

Mavro is an indigenous red grape cultivated on the island of Cyprus. The grape takes its name from its dark colour. The Italian ampelographer, Count Giuseppe di Rovasenda refers to it in 1877 as Cipro Nero ....

 rootstock, a grape variety cultivated extensively on the island of Cyprus

Cyprus

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.

Wine regions

The principal appellation using this variety, Côtes du Frontonnais (red and rosé), requires that 50% to 70% of the blend be the Négrette grape. The other 50% to 30% must be Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the major black grape varieties worldwide. It is principally grown for blending with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot in the Bordeaux style, but can also be vinified alone - as in the Loire's Chinon...

 and Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape varieties. It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country among a diverse spectrum of climates from Canada's Okanagan Valley to Lebanon's Beqaa Valley...

 (maximum 25% together) and/or Côt

COT

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 (maximum 25%) and/or Fer

Fer

Fer is a red French wine grape variety that is grown primarily in South West France and is most notable for its role in the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée wines of Gaillac, Marcillac and Béarn but can also be found as minor component in the wines of Madiran, Cabardès and Bergerac...

 (maximum 25%) and/or Syrah (maximum 25%) and/or Cinsaut

Cinsaut

Cinsaut or Cinsault is a red wine grape, whose heat tolerance and productivity make it important in Languedoc-Roussillon and the former French colonies of Algeria and Morocco...

, Gamay

Gamay

Gamay is a purple-colored grape variety used to make red wines, most notably grown in Beaujolais and in the Loire Valley around Tours. Its full name is Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc. It is a very old cultivar, mentioned as long ago as the 15th century...

, Mauzac

Mauzac

Mauzac may refer to:* Mauzac , a grape variety mainly grown in the Gaillac region southeast of Bordeaux in France* Mauzac, Haute-Garonne, a commune of the Haute-Garonne département in France...

 (a white grape) and Merille

Merille

Merille is a red French wine grape variety that is grown primarily in the Garonne of South West France. It is a common grape in table wine....

 (maximum 15% together). At least three grape varieties must be used.

Wines

Wine made from this grape tends to show versatility in being able to age moderately well and also be drunk young. In California

California

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 the vine is known as Pinot St-George. In the Fiefs Vendeens of the Loire Valley, Negrette may be called 'Ragoutant'. The vine has declined in planting in the last century due to its susceptibility to oidium

Oidium

This article is about a type of fungal spore. For the ascomycete genus, see Oidium . For the fungus that causes powdery mildew on grapes, see Uncinula necator....

 and grey rot.

Synonyms

Négrette is also known under the following synonyms: Bourgogne, Cahors, Cap de More, Chalosse Noire, Couporel, Degoutant, Folle Noire, Morelet, Morillon, Mourelet, Mourrelet, Negralet, Negraou, Negret, Negret de Gaillac, Negret du Tarn, Negrette de Fronton, Negrette de Longages, Negrette de Nice, Negrette de Rabastens, Negrette de Villaudric, Negrette de Villemur, Negrette Entiere, Negrette Poujut, Negretto, Noirien, Petit Negret, Petit Negrette, Petit Noir, Petit Noir de Charentes, Petit Noir de Fronton, Pinot Saint Georges, Pinot St. George, Ragoutant, Saintongeais, Vesparo Noir, and Villemur.

External links

• Negrette Passport data on Vitis International Variety Catalogue
  Vitis International Variety Catalogue
  The Vitis International Variety Catalogue is a database of various species and varieties/cultivars of grapevine, the genus Vitis. VIVC is administered by the Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding in Siebeldingen, Germany, and contains information from grapevine collections existing in...