Comments on: Winesday: Kunde Estate 2005 Zinfandel http://www.elliemay.com/wordpress/2008/11/16/winesday-kunde-estate-2005-zinfandel/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:06:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: elliemay http://www.elliemay.com/wordpress/2008/11/16/winesday-kunde-estate-2005-zinfandel/#comment-11547 elliemay Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:19:07 +0000 http://www.elliemay.com/wordpress/?p=217#comment-11547 Thanks for the interesting history, Miquel! I may need to seek out some of your Croatian wine recommendations. I love trying wines from smaller regions. Being one-fourth Croatian myself, wines from that country are particularly interesting to me. Thanks for the interesting history, Miquel! I may need to seek out some of your Croatian wine recommendations. I love trying wines from smaller regions. Being one-fourth Croatian myself, wines from that country are particularly interesting to me.

]]> By: Miquel http://www.elliemay.com/wordpress/2008/11/16/winesday-kunde-estate-2005-zinfandel/#comment-11546 Miquel Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:29:40 +0000 http://www.elliemay.com/wordpress/?p=217#comment-11546 I think that the name of 'zinfandel' is often attributed to being of Austrian origin as when the grape was brought over to California, Croatia was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. As for the Croatian name origin, that's quite easy as it means something like, "Castle Black" which is understandable given that it's from a series of seven towns near Split, Croatia that once were a series of of Kašteli (castle, frontier towns) along the coast. The Crljenak comes from the fact that they call red wine 'black' wine there as is the case is a lot of Europe. If you venture to other parts of Croatia the name shifts such as on Vis island where it is called, Carnjenak. Historically, it was grown a great deal more in Croatia, but tapered off given that it wasn't really hardy enough for the environment. This is why its child, Plavac Mali took off in popularity a great deal more. Anyways, just a dump of info, since I've spent a good deal of time researching Croatian wines. -miquel <a href="http://www.vinologue.net/" rel="nofollow">Vinologue</a> I think that the name of ‘zinfandel’ is often attributed to being of Austrian origin as when the grape was brought over to California, Croatia was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. As for the Croatian name origin, that’s quite easy as it means something like, “Castle Black” which is understandable given that it’s from a series of seven towns near Split, Croatia that once were a series of of Kašteli (castle, frontier towns) along the coast. The Crljenak comes from the fact that they call red wine ‘black’ wine there as is the case is a lot of Europe. If you venture to other parts of Croatia the name shifts such as on Vis island where it is called, Carnjenak. Historically, it was grown a great deal more in Croatia, but tapered off given that it wasn’t really hardy enough for the environment. This is why its child, Plavac Mali took off in popularity a great deal more.

Anyways, just a dump of info, since I’ve spent a good deal of time researching Croatian wines.

-miquel
Vinologue

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