Then someone decided it was really durif, an obscure grape from southern France.

It can be red, white or sparkling and it's made from really obscure grapes like verdeca and piedirosso.

He found a small vineyard just south of St. Helena planted entirely with grignolino, an obscure Italian grape.

For the longest time, it was thought to be related to an obscure French grape called the durif.

Mendocino County in California is not off the beaten trail, but it's rare that you find wine made from the charbono, an obscure grape with unknown origins.

The Vin Santo from this area is unique in that the wine must be composed of 100% Nosiola-an obscure local grape grown little elsewhere.

What's more, scientists for years insisted that the petite sirah was the same as the durif, an obscure French grape.

Now, genetic analysis reveals that the petite sirah is in fact a cross between the Rhone syrah and a different obscure French grape, the peloursin.

Wine is also complicated in its own right, because of the foreign names, the obscure grapes and numerous other factors beyond the industry's doing.

It comes from mencía, an obscure grape.