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	White Zinfandel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White Zinfandel, often called "White Zin", is an off–dry to sweet blush wine which is pink in color.
		White Zinfandel is made from the Zinfandel grape, which would otherwise produce a red wine.
		Typically an inexpensive jug wine, White Zinfandel is a quaffing wine that is sweet, low in alcohol, and soft making it a popular choice with those who would not otherwise drink wine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_Zinfandel (438 words)

	Zinfandel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zinfandel, also known as Zin, is a red-skinned wine grape popular in California for its intense fruitiness and lush texture.
		Vintners use Zinfandel grapes to produce a wide range of wine styles including sweet White Zinfandels, light-bodied reds reminiscent of Beaujolais nouveau, full bodied dry reds, sweet late harvest dessert wines, and ports.
		Most serious wine critics consider White Zinfandel to be insipid and uninteresting, while many also consider the heavy styles to be too high in alcohol, making wines that are too "hot" and food unfriendly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zinfandel (434 words)

	White Zinfandel Wine Information
		White Zinfandel is a relative newcomer to the world of wine.
		White zinfandel is a way to slowly retrain those palates to appreciate the dryer flavors.
		White zinfandel is delicious with cream-based-sauce with pasta, with fish, pork, and other "lighter" meals.
	www.wineintro.com /types/whitezin.html (464 words)

	White Zinfandel: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about White Zinfandel
		White Zinfandel, often called "White Zin," is an off-dry to sweet "blush" wine, pink in color, made from Zinfandel grapes.
		Typically an inexpensive jug wine[?], White Zinfandel is a quaffing wine that is sweet, low-alcohol, and soft, making it a popular choice with people who would otherwise not drink wine.
		One technique they used to increase concentration in their wines was saignée[?], where some juice is bled off to increase the impact of compounds in the skins on the remaining wine.
	www.encyclopedian.com /wh/White-Zin.html (370 words)

	Untitled
		The Sierra Valley 2004 White Zinfandel is a light-bodied wine with a gorgeous, jewel-like color in the glass.
		Zinfandel grapes have a longstanding tradition in California, dating back to the middle of the Nineteenth Century.
		Zinfandel accumulates deep and concentrated character on the vine when given a week or two of additional hang time.
	www.gallo.com /CAE/cellar/wine_notes.asp?wine=sierra_valley_white_zinfandel (277 words)

	WHITE MERLOTS Wine column in Rochester Dines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Because white zinfandel took the nation by storm, makers of white merlot hope to carry an alternative banner this year.
		The same process works for white merlot, also producing a pink wine that is a little bit drier (less sweet) than the white zin.
		It was not as cloyingly sweet as a white zinfandel, but it was sweet enough.
	www.rochesterdines.com /wine/1129wine.html (494 words)

	White Zinfandel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is not a grape variety but a method of processing (Dry fruity red wine from California) Zinfandel grapes which is used in (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California.
		Typically an inexpensive (Inexpensive wine sold in large bottles or jugs) jug wine, White Zinfandel is a quaffing wine that is sweet, low in alcohol, and soft making it a popular choice with those who would not otherwise drink wine.
		However, the demand for White Zinfandel resulted in extended commercial viability of (Click link for more info and facts about old vine) old vine Zinfandel vineyards, which saved them from being ripped out.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wh/white_zinfandel.htm (512 words)

	White zinfandel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		White Zinfandel White Zinfandel is not a white wine but rather what's called a BLUSH WINE in the United States and a ROSÉ or BLANC DE NOIR in France.
		White Zinfandel is a Zinfandel rose that is left slightly sweet with an acid balance.
		Leaping Horse, White Zinfandel The white zinfandel grapes are grown in mature vineyards that consistently produce grapes...
	www.wine-and-cheese.org /white-zinfandel (719 words)

	Trinity Oaks : Wine : White Zinfandel
		The grapes for this bottling were sourced primarily from Amador County and vineyards in the Lodi region (San Joaquin County), a region well-known for producing quality zinfandel fruit.
		The juice was cold fermented at 58 degrees F to retain the delicate fruit aromas and flavors.
		This white zinfandel displays a beautiful, clear salmon blush color and fresh, sweet aromas of strawberries and raspberries.
	www.trinityoaks.com /wine/wz_wine.html (148 words)

	White Zinfandel, now 30, once ruled the U.S. wine world / The wine snobs won't touch it, but that's their loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Soon, most California wineries were making White Zinfandel, and from the early 1980s until the late 1990s, it was the most popular varietal in the United States, supplanted by Chardonnay in 1998.
		Although sales of White Zinfandel have dropped since its heyday, Trinchero still sells 4.5 million cases of it a year and says the category is an $800 million annual business, with Sutter Home and Beringer Vineyards the major volume players.
		White Zin and its cousins (White Merlot, White Grenache, etc.) are not to be confused with dry rose wines (see The Chronicle's rose recommendations on Page D3), which are made in hues ranging from onion skin to deep salmon to candy-apple red and are mostly dry, without residual sugar.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/03/WI178515.DTL (1031 words)

	Tastings: White zinfandel continues its story of success
		Typically, white zinfandel is a pink fruity wine with some sweetness, meant to be served chilled.
		As wine consumers, we are indebted to the white zinfandel boom for saving many of the old zinfandel vineyards from being replanted with other varietals.
		When the red zinfandel wines made a comeback in the '90s, many of these vineyards were still around to provide producers with top quality grapes.
	www.post-gazette.com /food/20020808wine6.asp (602 words)

	Democrat and Chronicle -- Entertainment -- Rochester, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To make red Zinfandel, after the grapes are crushed, the white juice is left with the red skins for a long time.
		The best seller, Beringer 2002 White Zinfandel ($4.48 to $6.99), has a fragrant nose and even though it is sweet in the foretaste, it finishes dry.
		A blend of 80 percent White Zinfandel and 20 percent Chardonnay, it is not as sweet as Beringer's plain White Zin.
	www.democratandchronicle.com /entertainment/dines/wine/ent_1248.shtml (594 words)

	Castoro Cellars
		White Zinfandel has become one of the more popular wines today.
		Our White Zinfandel is made in a style that lends itself to being enjoyed with or without a meal.
		The flavors are delicate and full of the Zinfandel fruit, all this is balanced with a slight bit of sweetness to make this off dry wine clean and brisk in the finish.
	www.castorocellars.com /cgi-bin/CASstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=1300 (103 words)

	Welcome to Attrezzi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zinfandel is an inferior grape that produces a pink sickly sweet wine.
		Zinfandel is an amazingly versatile grape that can produce world class wines in a number of styles, from the infamous White Zin to seductive reds and even dessert wines.
		Zinfandel had been around forever and was still widely planted, but was usually used in inferior bulk table wine.
	www.attrezzinh.com /zinfandel.cfm (1720 words)

	Epinions.com - Don't be Embarrassed to Drink White Zinfandel Wine
		White Zinfandel is popular for two primary reasons: it is generally inexpensive -- almost universally sold for less than $8 per bottle -- and it has a slightly sweet taste that makes for easy drinking ("gulping").
		To produce a light colored, "blush" wine from a grape as red (purple) as the Zinfandel, grapes are separated from their stalks and are left to macerate in steel vats (i.e., the fruit is left with its skin, and the purple skin color bleeds into the must -- the mix of juice and crushed fruit).
		The Barefoot White Zin I drank this past weekend was the first White Zin I tried in some months.
	www.epinions.com /content_1984536708 (740 words)

	Zinfandel Definition in the Wine Dictionary at Epicurious.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zinfandel is vinified in many styles, which vary greatly in quality.
		One popular style is White Zinfandel, a fruity-flavored white wine that's usually slightly sweet and ranges in color from light to dark pink.
		As Zinfandel's popularity increases, more and more enterprising Italian Primitivo growers are labeling their wines "Zinfandel" and exporting them to the United States.
	www.epicurious.com /drinking/wine_dictionary/entry?id=8601 (357 words)

	White Merlot
		White Merlot is the same as white Zinfandel, except it is made from the Merlot grape.
		As with white Zinfandel, white Merlot derives it's color by leaving the grape juice in contact with the red skins of the grape for a short period of time, usually hours or days.
		Beringer (never to be outdone) is producing a white Merlot for $5 a bottle, although theirs is quite a bit sweeter, and therefore more along the line of the classic white Zinfandel.
	www.supermarketguru.com /page.cfm/184 (620 words)

	Zinfandel / Primitivo / Crljenak
		Zinfandel was for many years somewhat of a mystery grape, as far as its origins are concerned.
		Zinfandel is one red varietal that is probably best enjoyed in its youth, within three to five years of the vintage.
		Jasenka Piljac has written Zinfandel: A Croatian-American Wine Story, chronicling her fascinating and picturesque experiences as a key researcher and translator for Dr. Carole Meredith in the search for the varietal's origins in the author's ancestral homeland.
	www.winepros.org /wine101/grape_profiles/zinfandel.htm (760 words)

	J.Lohr Vineyards & Wines: Wines
		ARIEL White Zinfandel is made from the red Zinfandel grape.
		ARIEL White Zinfandel is produced from select California vineyards growing Zinfandel exclusively for White Zinfandel production, with an emphasis on vineyards producing grapes with a strawberry fruit character.
		ARIEL White Zinfandel is a wonderful accompaniment to fruit and cheese, shrimp, scallops, lighter pasta dishes and desserts.
	www.jlohr.com /wines_ariel_whitezin.html (148 words)

	Taste: Drinking White Zinfandel without blushing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		White Zinfandel was America's most popular varietal wine until 1994 -- when it was passed by Chardonnay, which still reigns supreme.
		Sales of White Zinfandel have been pretty much flat since 1997 -- and, because Americans are drinking more wine these days, that means its share of the palate has fallen -- but it's still the second most-popular varietal, with about 21 million cases sold per year.
		In the past, we have found that White Zinfandel is often terrible: very sweet, ponderous and lacking any hint of actual fruit tastes.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05189/535110.stm (1314 words)

	Zinfandel's Fervent Fans
		Zinfandel attracts the most loyal and enthusiastic fans of any wine variety in California.
		The Zinfandel in question is, of course, red wine, although "red Zinfandel" is redundant; there is Zinfandel and then there is white Zinfandel, and only the latter requires a color modifier.
		Called ZAP (short for "Zinfandel Advocates and Producers"), the laudable goals of the nonprofit organization are to promote Zinfandel as a varietal and to encourage its understanding and enjoyment.
	www.sallys-place.com /beverages/wine/vintnerschoice/zinf_fans.htm (1359 words)

	TableWine Forum: Barefoot Cellars "White Zinfandel"
		However, while not having any white zins in a long time, she liked it.
		Unfortunately for me, in my group of friends and family who drink wine prefer mostly white Zins(red wine dinkers are outnumbered 2 to 1 or even more)(trying to change that though).
		So I guess, it comes naturally to have white Zins handy or else not much wine would be had except by the oldtimers with the homemade stuff.
	www.tablewine.com /discus/messages/3/634.html?1094538347 (332 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: White zinfandel invented by accident 08/12/98
		Since white zinfandel's serendipitous creation in 1972, Sutter Home, Beringer Vineyards and scores of other wineries have had great luck with the wine.
		According to Gomberg, Fredrikson, white zinfandel is the second most popular wine in the United States.
		But, he hastened to add, ``white zin sales have not fallen off much at all,'' indicating that the ``line extension'' is sparking additional sales.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/081298/fea_124-7545.shtml (444 words)

	Everything you need to know about zinfandel
		Zinfandel is considered the most American of wine grapes because it is chiefly cultivated in California.
		There are zins that edge toward a port, the fortified sweet wine from Portugal; dry roses made from zinfandel; and the lightest, and the most popular product from this grape, white zinfandel.
		White zin is sweet, it's soft and it's one of the most popular wines in the United States.
	www.freep.com /features/living/wine12e_20041112.htm (400 words)

	Fre Wines: White Zinfandel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 2000 Fre White Zinfandel has been awarded silver medals at the California State Fair, Dallas Morning News, and Indiana State Fair International wine competitions; and a bronze medal at the San Francisco International Wine Competition.
		Fre White Zinfandel is produced using the revolutionary spinning cone column, which gently removes the alcohol while preserving the delicate aroma and flavor essences.
		Fre White Zinfandel boasts a pale salmon color; a fresh, fruity aroma suggesting strawberries and cranberries, and soft, fruity, berrylike flavors leading to a crisp, lingering aftertaste.
	www.frewines.com /whitezin.html (146 words)

	MARTIN: White zin snubs the snobs
		Yet white zinfandel is an $800 million business in the United States.
		By the late 1970s, Sutter Home White Zinfandel was so popular, Trinchero was loading the wine as fast as he could from the bottling line directly to waiting trucks.
		He joked his young white zin was "freeway aged." White zinfandel was America's most popular table wine from the mid-'80s until 1994, when chardonnay finally eclipsed its sales.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/07/27/tem_taste27martin.html (837 words)

	White Zinfandel
		White Zinfandel - light-bodied, delicious, fruity - perfect for summer gatherings.
		The white juice is left in contact with the red skin of the grape for a short period of time, giving it a "blush" color.
		Many people were introduced to the wine category through White Zinfandel.
	www.lacasadevino.com /basics/v_whtzin.html (94 words)

	Golden Oldies / There's more than just fruit in old-vine Zinfandel -- its earthy flavors are history in a bottle
		White Zin is the main reason Zinfandel is the state's fourth-most-planted wine grape, behind Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
		Because Zinfandel back then was overplanted and overcropped -- meaning farmers went for big yields at the expense of quality -- Zinfandel's reputation began to tarnish in the 1890s.
		In fact, Zinfandel is the greatest bargain among all U.S. wines, according to Gunter Schamel of Humboldt University in Berlin.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/28/WIGFNDS6V81.DTL (2905 words)

	Zinfandel - California Wineries that make Zinfandel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zinfandel was widely used in blended reds, and rarely given any special attention.
		Zinfandel growers couldn’t get more than a couple hundred dollars a ton for their grapes; for the old vineyards, yielding a ton or less per acre, that meant essentially giving them away.
		Increasingly, Zinfandel wines and vines are receiving the sort of fanatical, vineyard-specific winemaking attention previously reserved for all-star varietals such as Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon.
	wineparticipator.com /zinfandel.html (484 words)

	Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wines: Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Not a grape variety, but rather a white wine (usually with a distinct pink "blush") made from the Zinfandel grape, it has been around in limited production for most of the century.
		The Sutter Home Winery, whose brawny Amador County Zinfandels gained prominence in the early 1970s, is generally given the credit for initiating the White Zinfandel boom sometime in the latter 1970s.
		The White Zinfandel phenomenon appears to be a combination of several converging trends, including the white wine boom, the aging of the "Coca-Cola" crowd, and the search for something better by wine cooler aficionados.
	www.wineaccess.com /expert/connoisseurs/reference-one.html?id=182 (183 words)

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