Zinfandel Red

[davejock]

Do any European vineyards produce Zinfandel Red

[Thomas]

Yes, in Italy you will find Primitivo sometimes labeled as Zinfandel--it's a DNA thing. There is a post somewhere in the archives on this subject.

[cpurvis]

Searched the Italian forum for "primitivo." Curmy claimed zin isn't identical. See: http://www.wines.com/ubb2/Forum13/HTML/000002.html
However, primitivo & the Croatian plavac varietal (as recently reported by IK) are surely as close to zin as a European wine gets.

cp

[winoweenie]

Davejock, welcome to the baord. Purvi-booger , you be dead on. Still no real proof that Primotivo and Zin are one and the same. Think them Mayans imported the vines to their cousins the Shawnee injuns an' we spread them suckers all obber the west. WW Most of the viniculturalusts I've talked with feel the wines are different.

[This message has been edited by winoweenie (edited 09-06-2001).]