CA State Senator wants to proclaim Zinfandel as the official state wine!

[Zinfandel]

Yessss...being, an Italian born & raised in SF ...I love great sourdough bread, Dungeness crab and fine Zinfandel wine (all of which including pasta I had tonight). :smoke: Hehehe!

I'm happy CA recognizes the wonderful complexities, great fruitiness and dry distinct Zinfandel wine as being something really special! :bounce:

"It's a grape that's very old in California, is appealing to all palates and can be served with all varieties of food," said Migden, a nondrinker whose Bay Area district includes part of Sonoma County and who said she was impressed by the strong showing of Zinfandels at last month's San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition in Cloverdale.

Terrific" is how Zinfandel Advocates and Producers, which represents 300 wineries that bottle Zinfandel and 5,000 Zinfandel drinkers, describe Migden's bill.

"No other varietal is as uniquely integral to California's wine-growing history," said Rebecca Robinson, executive director of the group, which is based in Rough and Ready (Nevada County) and just celebrated its 15th annual Zinfandel Festival in San Francisco.

The San Francisco-based Wine Institute, the self-described "voice for California wine," is taking a more cautious approach to (Senator) Migden's legislation."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/10/ZIN.TMP

[autorank]

1. When I lived there is was Red Mountain!

[Zinfandel]

3. Well...me too, when I was a kid & had a joint and the only wine that

us dudes could fine (and afford) and drinking Red Mountain Burgundy and trying to get the girls drunk on it....but it tasted like such shit...Did Gallo make it?

[autorank]

6. I think Gallo made it, off label (which showed how bad it was;)

I remember it was something like $1.50 a gallon. Admitting I drank this crap is the first time I've felt I really needed the privacy of an anonymous forum.

But being named the official wine of California is quite an honor for you. Get a little gold seal for your sig line;)

[BrotherBuzz]

13. Red Mountain was made in Modesto, California

ALL wines made in Modesto are Gallo. Gallo had many labels that targeted specific markets but none of their products were truly bad, they just had few redeeming qualities.

When all is said and done, Red Mountain really wasn't a bad wine, it just wasn't received well by the mass market back in those days because people were accustomed to sweet wines with residual sugars . Red Mountain was a dry wine.

[Wilms]

2. Congratulations, Zinfandel

[Syrinx]

4. cool!

You stand to make a fortune! :D

[LaPera]

5. Cheers, Zin!

[SoCalDem]

7. There are more important things for the legislature to be doing

aren't there??

If Arnie stays in our state wine will probably end up being Thurderbird or Ripple..

[azurnoir]

8. Hey Ripple Pagan Pink

was good stuff, well ok it was drinkable and 45 cents a bottle when I was a kid.

[SoCalDem]

9. Boone's farm and 7-UP was pretty decent too

:)

[obreaslan]

10. My thoughts exactly....

Unfortunately this should help perpetuate the "Wine and Cheese Liberal" myth...

:shrug:

[BrotherBuzz]

11. This member of ZAP agrees...

Zinfandel has always been truly unique to California, even when my great great and great grandfathers were making in back in the seventies and eighties.

As a winemaker, I embrace and enjoy all the styles of Zin we make in California except for that crappy market gimmick shit they call 'White' Zinfandel.

Thank you Haraszthy for making it possible.

[BeeBee]

12. Say it's not so!

While I don't dislike Zin, I'd much rather prefer a nice bubbly or Pinot... Or, how about wine in general as the state beverage.

[bmbmd]

14. Just as well-

I am not drinking any Merlot...

[yurbud]

15. Do we already have an official beer?

[TahitiNut]

16. The State Whine: "Oh, no! Not Zinfandel again!"

:silly: :dunce: