I do recall at the height of the white zin craze, a customer said he heard
about a white riesling---I showed him a nice kabinett with riesling in its
title but he said he only wanted a "white" riesling & didn't believe me when
I said all rieslings were white---I called the store owner over because the
man was in a tirade about my attempts to deceive him. The owner went to the
back & found a bottle of white riesling from Stags Leap which was a gift
from the Winiarki's. The customer glaring at me accepted it. About two
weeks later the customer was back and wanted to shake my hand---seems he
went to a class or tasting on German wine and the leader confirmed that
indeed I had showed him the real thing, he also was told some complimentary
things about me as one of the few people in MD who understood the German
nomenclature............
"miles" > wrote in message
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> JR wrote:
> > OK...I recall, a few years ago, a "white grenache" in ads...So, the
recent
> > "while merlot" posts, along with my recollection of how horrible the
"white
> > zinfandel" tastes to me, and the recent "shiraz-grenache" blend
discussion
> > makes me wonder...
> >
> > Is Grenache usually a grape used for red wine?
>
> Yep, it is. I have also seen White Mouvedre, White Cab. etc. All are
> low end wines.
>
> When I go wine tasting around California very very few wineries have
> White anything available. Seems these products are made mostly by the
> big mass producers.