small black grape grown chiefly in California; transplanted from Europe
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dry fruity red wine from California
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California started the five-year wine cooler boom, and as the market went flat, consumers of that white-wine-and-fruit-juice blend moved up to white wine alone, then the more complex white zinfandel.
The suit said Anheuser-Busch had contracted to buy 900 tons of 100 percent zinfandel grapes from Bavaro Brothers, a grower in the San Joaquin Valley town of Escalon.
Toyota wants wine-bottles of California chablis, a little zinfandel, some blanc de blanc.