Zinfandel Origins

[Innkeeper]

According to April 30, 02 edition of WS, Zinfandel came from Croatia afterall. For a long time the contest was about whether the Italian Primitivo or the Croatian Plavac Mali was the same as Zin. Then DNA testing showed that Zin and Primitivo were clones of the same grape and that Plavac Mali was a cousin of both. In fact it was found that Plavac Mali was a descendent of Zinfandel and a grape called Dobricic. Now they have found a sample of a little known grape called Crljenak (pronounced "tsirl-ye-nak")which testing has proved to be identical to Zinfandel.