What Wine to Serve with the Thanksgiving Turkey?
Thanksgiving is a holiday unique to America, and what better wine to serve with your turkey this Thanksgiving than another American exclusive – Zinfandel! Now, we are not talking about the pink innocuous stuff called White Zinfandel, even though it is made from the same grape as red Zinfandel. Like all the classic wine varietals planted in America, the Zinfandel grape came from overseas sometime in the last hundred years or so. Its origin remains a controversy. Early investigations pointed to Syria as its motherland, but recent studies, which included DNA analyses, seem to indicate that it is closely related to the Duriff in France or the Primitivo, a northern Italian grape varietal. Unlike other American wines such as the Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon, which one could find their brethrens in France and elsewhere, there is no other wine like the American Zinfandel in the world today. Recent plantings of the Zinfandel grapes in South Africa and Australia produce wines that are not q
