"st.helier" > 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?
>>
>
> Jeff, broadly speaking, white wine can me made from "most" red grapes -
> it is the prolonged contact with the skin during the fermentation process
> which extracts the pigments from the grape skins which impart the colour
> to red wine.

That I knew, but, given the taste of (at least in my opinion) White
Zinfandel, I figured that all of the "white" varieties were a) crappy and b)
created for people who just couldn't take the body and "heaviness" of a red
wine of the same grape.

> Thus, white merlot; white cabernet; white grenache etc are possible.

Possible...OK...is there a "white cabernet" though?