Negro Amaro's native habitat is Puglia, that's the stiletto heel of Italy's boot. There it makes deeply coloured red wines and as I found in a recent trip to the region, it also makes a nice sparkling rose wine. Negro Amaro variety comes from the Italian words for black 'black' and 'bitter'. Negro Amaro wines are certainly deeply coloured even black, but they are not really bitter. An alternative idea is that the Amaro part of the word comes from a Greek word for black as well. So the translation is 'black black'. The Puglian wine specialist Silvestro Silvestori of  Awaiting Table cooking school subscribes to the latter idea which he thinks better describes the wines. The climate in Puglia is quite hot in viticultural terms. Therefore some Australian winemakers feel it could be suitable for many Australian regions.