White zin & similar

[Thomas]

Sonflower:

Let me correct the record first: White Zinfandel was born in 1976 when Sutter Home's winemaker was faced with a stuck fermentation. The incident gave the company an idea on how to get rid of that glut of Zinfandel that IK talked about.

White Zinfandel was mass marketed and that's what gave it the bad reputation to the upper echelon of wine snobs and sundry know-it-alls.

As IK said, after a while, a new wine drinker tends to drift away from sweet wine as a matter of course. The thing about wine that makes one lose interest in sweet over time is that while sweet is the simplest of tastes, wine is a complex product. Too much sugar masks wine's complexity, not to mention its affinity with dinner.

As for Moscato: it's a fad that will not last forever. It, too, is generally sweet.

Other than the above, drink what you like and don't give snobs a second glance. If only I had a dime for every wine know-it-all that I've met, I'd be highly paid for the hours I had to spend listening to the blowhards.