Popular Rose Wine

All wines that we taste and review were purchased at the full retail price.

Wine Reviewed Dancing Bull Zinfandel 2007 14.2% alcohol about $10

Zinfandel may well be America's only indigenous European-style grape variety. It makes fruity, powerful red wines. Yet approximately 85% of the time this red, red grape is vinified into a very popular rose wine known as White Zinfandel, one of which we reviewed quite recently. Don't let the colors confuse you; the present review is a red, red Zinfandel wine. You won't mistake it for a rose.

California has been producing Zinfandel wine since the 1850s. Believe it or not, some century-old Zinfandel grapevines are still producing wine grapes. Now the wine reviewed below comes from Sonoma County. Given its price range we are not surprised that its parentage is much younger vines. As you may guess, bargain wines don't come from old vines that produce relatively few, albeit flavorful grapes. You may want to compare this inexpensive Zinfandel with an old-vine Zin that may well cost over twice as much. In the meantime, you might well enjoy this wine produced under the Gallo Winery label by Rancho Zabaco, itself a century-old resident of Sonoma County. By the way, Sonoma County is the largest volume wine producer in California.