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Zinfandel Wine
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Game to eat with Zinfandel
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Zinfandel may be one of the most unusual grapes around. It is an American wine, widely grown in California whose origins are really unknown. The best Zinfandel grapes grow in cool coastal locations. They yield dry, full-bodied, intensely flavored red wines with substantial tannins. Premium Zins are rich and peppery, with a lush texture and ripe fruit flavors. It is delicious with goosr complimenting its somewhat heavier falvor than duck. It goes best with game stews, and more highly flavored meats like elk, bear, Boar, Caribou and Moose
History andCharacteristics of Zinfandel
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The basis on Zinfandle is unusual. In the 19th Century the California Legislature commissioned a man to go to Europe and collect vines to star a wine industry. He went to Erope for four years and guess what. When he came back, they refused to pay him. So he stood at the dock and gave out the vines to whomever wanted them and one of them was what we now call Zinfandel.
For years no one knew where the wine came from. However, DNA testing has shown that its main ancestor was an obscure grape from Croatia which is rarely grown in Europe. We are fortunate that it has no historical stylistic context elsewhere in the world. Few New World wine regions have had the opportunity to create a new great wine. With other varieties, we have constantly compared our efforts to European standards. Zinfandel gave us the unparalleled opportunity to create a unique world-class wine through cross pollinization.
Numerous old Zinfandel vineyards in California survived Prohibition and many date back to the late 1890s. The Heritage Vineyard at U Cal has an unusual and unprecedented collection of 90 rare and 'famous' Zinfandel vine cuttings, all at least 60 years old from all over California. They were specificaly chosen by the researchers because they were known to produce unique and high quality wines.
