KYZ – Know Your Zinfandels
Most of the Dinner Topics you have read are about things you will be talking about at dinner, but now it’s time for a little knowledge about what you might be consuming at the dinner itself, assuming you are a wine drinker.
Zinfandel is a confusing wine because some people use it in reference to red zinfandel, while others assume they’re getting a white zinfandel. Red zinfandel was the original, but white zinfandel slowly became the standard assumption. In recent years, however, red zinfandel has become more popular and gained some traction with red wine lovers. Let’s set the record straight so you’ll know what you’re drinking later tonight.
There is only one type of grape used to make both wines. Used to make both the red and white varieties, in making white zinfandel, the skins of the grapes are removed. That’s why white zinfandel is more of a blush or rosé color rather than the typical color of a true white wine.
Bonus note: Zinfandels use a different grape now than in the past. The former Zinfandel grape is now classified as Primitivo.1
Read on:
WineIntro.com – White Zinfandel
(image above taken from: http://www.betterrecipes.com/wine/wine-types/red-white-zinfandel.html)
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