
Two silver medals and three bronze were awarded. Explore the Seghesio Signature Zinfandels which feature Balanced wine flavors, Old Vines with history, Flavor Forward tasting wine, and Award Winning. Just seven wines were judged at the 2019 Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show. Nobody seems to be calling their wine Tribidrag Australia. Those wishing to emphasise the Italian style of their wine are using Primitivo.

Now you may also have come across something called White Zinfandel. Misfits & Mavens 2019 Zinfandel Blend 30. In Australia winemakers can use any of the names. There, it occupies over 10 of all vineyards, and produces robust, solid red wines as we’ll see in this article. The 2018 Joel Gott California Zinfandel has aromas of raspberries, blackberries and dried cranberry with notes of vanilla and spice. Shop all of our wine brands, including Freakshow, Petite Petit, Seven Deadly, Earthquake, Inkblot, Michael David Wines, Rapture, and our house favorites. My guess is that the Italians will keep calling their's Primitivo and the Americans will use Zinfandel. Mercifully the later name is older and therefore more correct, making life simpler for those of use unfamiliar with Slavic languages.Įach of the four names are acceptable. 2013 Turley White Zinfandel At 18 a bottle, this is the queen of White Zinfandel in many cases. It has also been established that the Croatian varieties Crljenak Kastelanski and Tribidrag are also genetically identical to Zinfandel. Introducing the Ten Best Zinfandel Wines You’ll Ever Buy and Taste. Yet another elegant Zinfandel from the Lamborns mountaintop vineyard. DNA shows that it is a cross of Zinfandel and another Dalmatian variety. Our Zinfandel is 100 varietal (not blended), 100 estate and organically grown. Plavic Mali is a similar but distinct variety. Zinfandel is an intense, fruit-forward red wine that wine connoisseurs enjoy for its jammy, fruity, smoky qualities, as well as distinct spice overtones. See this article to understand the difference between a clone and a variety. Primitivo and Zinfandel are genetically identical, hence they can be correctly identified as clones of the same variety, but see more on this below. Here is current consensus about this variety, backed by modern DNA analysis as reported in Jancis Robinson's book Wine Grapes
