The Source of Zinfandel

For those that know Zinfandel, they know that it’s a tasty wine. It can be fruity, complex, deep, succulent, and as was the general perception until recently, oh-so Californian. Naturally, there are no native vitis vinifera grapes to California from which one can make the wine we know and love. Everything there is, is Old World and it’s generally known where in the Old World these grapes came from. Zinfandel was something of a mystery though. For the longest time, it was thought to have originated from Italy. This was […]