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Sullivan, Charles L. Zinfandel: a History of a Grape and Its Wine.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Sept. 2003. 246p. illus. index. Univ. of California, $24.95 (0-520-23969-5), 634.8.
Wine historians have long debated the true origins of America's unique wine grape, zinfandel. Though much of today's zinfandel harvest goes to produce sweet and insipid jug roses, more and more oenophiles have come to appreciate zinfandel's big, peppery, full-bodied red wines that stand with the world's best. Through meticulous research, Sullivan demonstrates that the zinfandel grape came to California, not through the Hungarian Agoston Haraszthy in the 1860s, but from decades-earlier shipments of vinifera varieties from New England nurseries. The grape ...
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