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Wine competitions in California show shift away fr

By Don Giovanni
December 4, 2008 in Wine

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Wine competitions in California show shift away from zins

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An earthquake is rattling the Sacramento wine region. Petite sirah, syrah and barbera are challenging zinfandel as the wine most responsible for the standing of fine-wine appellations in Sacramento's backyard.
This conclusion is based on an analysis of 13 commercial wine competitions over the past year.

The results were even more dramatic for wines from Nevada, Placer and El Dorado counties. Of the 108 red wines from the three counties to win gold medals, 20 were syrahs, 17 were petite sirahs and 14 were zinfandels.

So I have to ask this question...?... maybe Syrahs and petite sirahs are taking on Zin characteristics...due to style...or maybe Zin is getting too bold and fat and the judges are confused...surely something is going on...???>..

John D. Zuccarino

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