The most important accident in wine.

The most important accident in wine;


It is hard to believe that we could live without White Zinfandel. The majority of new wine drinkers today begin drinking White Zinfandel. This pretty pink wine is a clean light sweet easy drinking quaffing wine that is perfect for first time wine drinkers. It is lower in alcohol than traditional wines, thus it is easy for first timers to drink without feeling the effects of higher alcohol wines.
White Zinfandel is really produced from red grapes. In the early 1970’s. At the Trinchero Family Winery (Sutter Home) in California. The winemaker was producing Red Zinfandel and decided to pour off some of the early fermented juice. He stored it in some storage barrels in the barn for several weeks until he could decide what to do with the juice. He was about to return the juice to the Red Zinfandel fermentation, until he opened it and found it was pink and sweet. At that time White Zinfandel was born.
Sutter Home began bottling and selling this mistake juice in their tasting room and discovered that people couldn’t get enough. From this point the rest of the story is history. Production continued to grow throughout the years, and now Sutter Home White Zinfandel is imitated by all is on every restaurant wine list and is sold in every wine store.
If you want to expose people to wine that have never drank wine before White Zinfandel is a great place to start.

Until next time. Drink more wine.


Tim Miles- Owner Premium Wines & Spirits –
"Explaining the Miles of Wine"