…Day and it was fairly busy with people buying wine for their mothers. I sold more White Zinfandel today than any other day I can ever recall. One of the customers seemed almost guilty buying it, telling me that it was for his mother. That made me ponder the matter, raising a question in my mind.
If you truly love your mother, would you really buy her an inexpensive wine like a White Zinfandel?
Some might think the answer is easy, that their mother deserves much better than White Zinfandel…
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…appreciation and explore this light and refreshing wine. Rosés that have finished last in the past when the wine market was flooded with White Zinfandel look-a-likes but, are quickly making a comeback. As the summer weather rapidly approaches, wineries are releasing their best rosés to the market for optimum enjoyment. Guests will not want to miss this chance to drink this chilled wine and discover the full spectrum of flavors that Rosés have to offer.
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…has a fun label. That's rarely a good sign, and had me fearing that it may be aiming for the White Zinfandel crowd. It's a rich dark red, and it smells, well, like Shiraz really. It's a bit more blackberries than raspberries, and the spice is perhaps deeper than the light black pepper tang I'd hoped for. If there was a Venn diagram of pure Shiraz and pure Zinfandel I guess this would just about pass for a warm climate over extracted Zinfandel of rich black pepper …
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…Rosé has an image problem in America. It is too often associated with White Zinfandel and other sweet blushes that have no character, substance or depth. But true rosé is not like that, even a sweet rosé can have a complexity to it if it is made correctly. And there are a lot of well-made rosé ones in Virginia, we will be highlighting one of them here over the next few weeks.
The great news is that he Virginia Wine Board is going to work with us and Drink What You Like, …
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…Baby Boomers who were weaned on Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill. White Zinfandel, which is actually sweetish, pink wine, is the wine that made Beringer a powerhouse in the business.
The Maggio Family Zin is a dang good wine at a very good price. You should be able to find it in the $8.00-$10.00 range. I like it a little better than Bogle's Zin and the Maggio blows the doors off of the ever-popular Seven Deadly Zins~~proof that kitsch marketing sometimes works. …
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…and was touting her status as a person who would only write about "things she only liked, not White Zinfandel, which didn't need her help." She must have been important. I admit it was so tragically comic that even though I wanted to rescue the Barone, the only thing I could do was stand 10 feet behind the "blogger" and stick my tongue out so that the Barone could only see me. To his credit he never broke his stride, even though later at dinner he excoriated me (in …
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…when I first heard of this Port a few years ago, I imagined it as a sort of " White Zinfandel" -- you know, the light sweet rose wine that bartenders are rumored to hide beneath the bar. Yet the better way to think about it is a trendy refreshing cocktail, a beverage meant to be served with crushed ice, a slice of lemon, and sparkling water. It is doing very well with bartenders who can create attractive drinks quickly, and at the same time is gradually introducing today's young …
…rosés in contrast to the tepid rosés of ten or twenty years ago or those resembling Californian White Zinfandel.
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Also their launching, like Tulip, of their first kosher reserve Cabernet. These two new reserve Cabernets never shown at an Israel expo for me were worth the price of admission (oh that's right I didn't pay as a member of the press). Well they were worth the bus ride from Ra'anana. The new artistic animal …
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…what he enjoys? The beef here is with the marketing of moscato as if the launch of some winery's White Zin Moscato or Purple Passion Moscato represented great strides not only in the wine industry but in the tastes and cultural aspirations of all Americans. And I really don't think it's a good idea for Clairette de Die, the lightly sparkling white wine from east of the town of Valence, in the southern Rhone Valley, to market itself in the United States as "French …
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…customers probably drank gimlets, Napa Cabernet or White Zinfandel more than anything else!
On my second night in Florida, Tablas Creek was the featured winery at the cool new restaurant in downtown Sarasota called State Street Eating House and Cocktails .
Tablas Creek night at State Street Eating House
Not only did the lead singer of AC/DC turn up to taste through our white wines (he loved the 2009 Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc), but a packed house thoroughly …
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