Comments on The Naked Vine: Wine Advice for the Rest of Us.™: By the way, which one's Pink?

There are no ridiculous questions. There are only ...

2008-03-19T17:41:00.000-04:00

There are no ridiculous questions. There are only ridiculous people who won't ask them.

But no, there are no strawberries in white grenache. Grenache is the
grape. As a red, Grenache often has flavors of raspberries and blackberries -- and since you're going to have more sugar in a white grenache, it wouldn't surprise me if it tasted like strawberries.

So, drink up without worry!

This is probably a ridiculous question but I have ...

2008-03-19T16:18:00.000-04:00

This is probably a ridiculous question but I have an allergy to strawberries are there strawberries in white grenache?

Hey. I like Beringer white zin. Not for when I wan...

2006-08-10T22:19:00.000-04:00

Hey. I like Beringer white zin. Not for when I want to drink wine, mind you; just for when I want to drink.

Doug "Turtle" Creutz

Hey Mike... is someone at the New York Times readi...

2006-08-08T13:10:00.000-04:00

Hey Mike... is someone at the New York Times reading your blog?

Rose - The Summer Drink To Be Seen With.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/fashion/06ROSE.html?ex=1155182400&en=8b6fa001e7c1ced7&ei=5087%0A

mike - great start here! Congratulations, and tha...

2006-08-07T09:56:00.000-04:00

mike - great start here! Congratulations, and thanks for your suggestions.
John

It was Bernheim's wheat whiskey. Not bourbon, tech...

2006-08-05T01:18:00.000-04:00

It was Bernheim's wheat whiskey. Not bourbon, technically...but just delicious...

Oh, and what was the name of that wheat whiskey yo...

2006-08-04T19:50:00.000-04:00

Oh, and what was the name of that wheat whiskey you brought again?

I really like the start you've made... keep it up!...

2006-08-04T19:49:00.000-04:00

I really like the start you've made... keep it up!

Congrats on the blog.

2006-08-04T15:48:00.000-04:00

Congrats on the blog.

Salut Mike. I like the site.

2006-08-03T16:10:00.000-04:00

Salut Mike. I like the site.

I agree, Mike. White Zinfandel, which is really n...

2006-08-03T15:37:00.000-04:00

I agree, Mike. White Zinfandel, which is really not white at all but pink, is for "wine" pussies, if you will. Perhaps I'm soured on it (pun not really intended) because it was my ex-wife's only preferred alcoholic beverage--Beringer White Zinfandel, to be exact.

Because it's sold in a wine bottle, maybe even with a real cork, I view White Zin as only one notch above Bartles & James Wine Coolers. Sweet and sryupy is right. I think my Oxford Companion to Wine (1st ed., 1994) suggests a similar dismissiveness in the language of its comparatively curt entry:

White Zinfandel, undeterred by the fact that it is neither white nor crucially Zinfandel, was California's great commercial success story of the 1980s. Although he was not the first to vinify California's ubiquitous Zinfandel grapes as a white, and therefore a Blush, wine, Bob Trinchero of Sutter Home launched White Zinfandel down the commercial slipway in 1972 and was to see his own sales rocket from 25,000 cases in 1980 to 1.5 million cases six years later. The wine evolved as a way of making California's vast acreage of Zinfandel acceptable to the predominantly white wine-drinking American public. So successful was it that it stimulated an outbreak of new plantings of the variety expressly to keep pace the demand for this decidedly ersatz version. The wine is usually pink, decidedly sweet, often enlivened with a touch of gas, and scented with more than a dash of other, more obviously aromatic, grape varieties such as Muscat or Riesling. So successful was the wine that it begat styles such as White Grenache, designed to glamorize vineyard Cinderellas."

I think it's rather telling subtextual commentary that in the film Sideways Merlot becomes the new whipping-wine whereas White Zinfandel is never mentioned despite its "great commercial success."

All hail the light-hearted Beaujolais, the delicate Pinot Noir, the hearty Cabernet Sauvignon and, yes, even the luscious Zinfandel!

~Sláinte,
Charles

Pink's for pussies.Anyway, they always leave me wi...

2006-08-03T14:58:00.000-04:00

Pink's for pussies.

Anyway, they always leave me with a wicked headache, so I'll stay red.