This is what good wine from the Mgaloblishvili grape tastes like

Mgaloblishvili sounds like a Georgian surname, and it is. But it's also a Georgian blue grape variety that can be made into wine. Winemaker Mgaloblishvili is likely the one who gave it its name. Mgaloblishvili is rare, but you'll occasionally come across a wine made from this grape.

And if you come across a Mgaloblishvili wine, it most likely comes from the Imereti wine region in western Georgia. In fact, it's also relatively unknown in Georgia itself. It's not held in high regard. Mgaloblishvili is said to produce light, unexciting wines, and therefore it's usually blended, for example, with Otskhanuri Sapere.

But Mgaloblishvili has recently attracted international interest. This is because it's one of the very few European grape varieties that appears to be immune to powdery mildew. This is a nasty grape disease (fungus) that, like phylloxera, arrived from America in the nineteenth century.