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03-25-2002, 09:40 AM,
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Saw this reply to a question posted on the WLDG and thought it interesting to this subject. She even supplied a link to a diagram.

http://www.lagiermeredith.com/Zinfandel/ZinHistory.gif

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From: Carole Meredith (UC Davis) Email
Date: 24-Mar-2002 22:30
Subject: Explanation Thread ID: 49818
Message ID: 406971

Tom and Anders,

Over the last 5 years we (we being me, the people in my research group, and my Croatian collaborators) have found quite a few pieces of the Zinfandel puzzle. Based on our DNA studies, here is how the picture looks now:

1. Zinfandel, Primitivo, and Crljenak kasteljanski are synonyms for the same grape variety. The different names are used in the United States, Italy and Croatia, respectively. (Very little Crljenak kasteljanski can be found in Croatia today.)

2. Zinfandel and Plavac Mali are not the same variety. (Plavac Mali is considered the best red winegrape of the Dalmatian coast and is the grape used in Dingac and Postup wines.)

3. Zinfandel and another Dalmatian variety called Dobricic are the parents of Plavac Mali. This means that Zinfandel must be older than Plavac Mali, which is itself considered a very old variety.

4. We cannot prove that Zinfandel originated in Dalmatia because we have not found its parents. However, the large number of Dalmatian varieties that are closely related to Zinfandel is strong evidence that Zinfandel is an indigenous Dalmatian variety or at least that it has been there for many centuries.

5. Speculation on my part: Although thought to be very old, Plavac Mali may actually be a relatively young variety. The venerable red wine variety that has been grown on the Dalmatian Coast for centuries may originally have been Zinfandel. When phylloxera hit the Dalmatian vineyards, much of the Zinfandel may have died and been supplanted by one of its seedlings, Plavac Mali. The two varieties have a similar physical appearance and in that traditional agricultural environment in which precise variety names were unimportant, the transition may gone unnoticed.

We have not yet reported these findings in any scientific papers because they are quite recent. We expect to have something written up and submitted within the next few months. There have been some news stories, such as these:

Wine Spectator 23 January 2002
Sacramento Bee 30 January 2002

(The Decanter story is not completely accurate in that it refers to our having found the parent of Zinfandel, which is not true.)

Carole Meredith
Professor
Department of Viticulture and Enology
University of California, Davis


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