No.
White Zinfandel is not considered red wine.
Zinfandel is a red grape used to make red wine. The color comes from the skins of the grapes. The juice of the grapes is clear.
One way that winemakers intensify the flavor and color of red wine is to pour off some of the juice after crushing, thus leaving a higher skin to juice ratio.
The poured off juice can be fermented as a white or pale pink wine. Sutter Home Winery in Napa Valley, California did this in the 1970s, selling it as a dry wine. One year they had a problem and the fermentation stopped before all the sugar was fermented out. Thus the resulting wine was not dry but semi-sweet. This wine quickly sold out, and so they deliberately made the wine that style afterwards, and they let the color get pinker. And so the boom in white Zinfandel came about.
They first called it a French name for a pale pink wine, which is Oeil de Perdrix (Eye of Partridge) but the BATF didn’t like that, so they named it White Zinfandel.
Those pink wines are known variously as Oeil de Perdrix, Rose or — as became popular in the US — Blush.
If you are thinking of the health benefits of drinking red wine, blush has more revasterol than white wine, but nowhere as much as red.
White Zinfandel is considered a Blush wine.
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No.
White Zinfandel is not considered red wine.
Zinfandel is a red grape used to make red wine. The color comes from the skins of the grapes. The juice of the grapes is clear.
One way that winemakers intensify the flavor and color of red wine is to pour off some of the juice after crushing, thus leaving a higher skin to juice ratio.
The poured off juice can be fermented as a white or pale pink wine. Sutter Home Winery in Napa Valley, California did this in the 1970s, selling it as a dry wine. One year they had a problem and the fermentation stopped before all the sugar was fermented out. Thus the resulting wine was not dry but semi-sweet. This wine quickly sold out, and so they deliberately made the wine that style afterwards, and they let the color get pinker. And so the boom in white Zinfandel came about.
They first called it a French name for a pale pink wine, which is Oeil de Perdrix (Eye of Partridge) but the BATF didn’t like that, so they named it White Zinfandel.
Those pink wines are known variously as Oeil de Perdrix, Rose or — as became popular in the US — Blush.
If you are thinking of the health benefits of drinking red wine, blush has more revasterol than white wine, but nowhere as much as red.
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