It is the fifth autochthonous variety authorised to make wine since 2016.
The Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) has published this Thursday the order of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that includes the native Giró negre variety in the category of authorised wine grape varieties in the Balearic Islands. This is the end of a ten-year process of research and recovery of autochthonous vine-growing material by the Balearic Islands Institute for Agri-Food and Fisheries Research and Training (IRFAP), which belongs to the Ministry of Agriculture.

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The order comes into force this Friday and means that the Balearic wine sector can now plant this recovered native variety and make wine. It is a variety very similar to Giró ros, but with black colour. In experimental tastings, Giró negre is considered a daring wine, with low colouring, special aromas and exotic fruits. As a result of the research, there are references to Giró Negre from 1632, in which Dameto et al. praise the Mallorcan wines produced in Banyalbufar, such as Giró Negre, Malvasia and Moscatell. There are also citations in the bibliography of the 18th and 19th centuries.

This variety is the fifth to be authorised in the Balearic Islands in six years. In 2016, Escursac was authorised, and in 2020 it was the turn of Callet Negrella, Esperó de Gall and Mancès de Tibús. The recovery of vine varieties involves a huge task of more than ten years of research, both by IRFAP and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and includes tasks from varietal identification, such as ampelographic and molecular description, to multiplication. Likewise, in the last phase of the process, the 5-year aptitude test of experimental vinifications is carried out, a requirement to be able to authorise the variety in our autonomous community.