Continuing with our section “Getting to know our Pisco,” this month we present another of our non-aromatic Pisco varieties: the Mollar.
Mollar Grape
Name: Mollar.
It is a non-aromatic variety with a bright red copper color. It is generally produced in small quantities and often found growing in the shade of Quebranta grape plants.
Origin: The Canary Islands, Spain
Name Origin: The Mollar grape, which can be white or red, derives its name from the way it is grown and shaped. A stick from the “molle” plant (which produces either Aguaribay or peppers), is planted as a tutor, or a plant for the Mollar grape to graft onto. When the molle plant produces roots, it grows along with the grape variety, offering the plant a means of support along its trunk and branches until it reaches considerable size. This helps ensure elevated production levels, and excellent plant conditions due to the good ventilation and aromatic intensity of the molle’s seeds, which prevent the proliferation of cryptogamic diseases. One can still see old grape vine stock which has been grafted upon the molle trunk.
Other varieties:
Mollar Cano has a high sugar content which is most fully appreciated when served in hot punches, or sweets. Its wines, which are light in color, are not great quality. Also, Almuñeco (La Palma), Listan Morado, Listan Negro (Tenerife), Listan Prieto, Mollar Negro, Negra común (in Lanzarote).
Ampelographic Characteristics
Plant: Variety with a bright red copper color
Root: Conical shape, medium sized, leading off to branches
Fruit: Clusters with medium oval shape, rosy-purplish tint, average diameter 1.3 cm
Cultivated area: from 10 to 100 Hectares.
Work presented by LPW
Career Specialist and Pisco Taster
Tasting Course II IDVIP October 2007
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Translated by Katrina Heimark
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