Unbelievable

[Thraz]

What better research than to give it a try? The vines were planted and some wine had already been made. I'd rather decide on the basis of an actual bottle - and if it finds a market, that's all the justification I need, not whether research says it's suited or not, or whether critics like it. I'm all for quality labels, and that's the AOC system's intent (however imperfect) - but the wine world would also be worse off without vins de pays. Actually I think the wine world would even be much worse off without white zin, because all these people would probably drink juice instead and never touch the wine world - or pour money into it. I can't imagine we'd find a lot of wine researchers that would say white zin is suited to any terroir.