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White Zinfandel

White Zinfandel is not a white wine but rather what’s called a BLUSH WINE in the United States and a ROSÉ or BLANC DE NOIR in France. It’s made from ZINFANDEL (a red-wine grape) and kept pale in color by quickly removing the skins from the juice after the grapes are pressed, which stops the transfer of color from the grape skin’s dark pigments. The wine is then processed as for white wine. The resulting color generally varies from pale pink to apricot to salmon. Most White Zinfandels are slightly sweet, although some are quite DRY with just a whisper of RESIDUAL SUGAR. Introduced in the United States in the late 1970s, White Zinfandel wines found a niche in the early 1980s as the white-wine boom took off and producers searched for a channel for the red-grape surplus.
Related Links: blush wine, blanc de noir(s), rosé, residual sugar (RS), extra dry
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