Saw a bottle yesterday at an Italian trade tasting that prominently displayed "ZINFANDEL" on the label of an IGT wine.
Thinking it to be a marketing gimmick to target the US, I inquired of the producers. They said "no", the stuff sells in Italy just fine.
Furthermore, they claimed that Primitivo and Zinfandel are the same grape--you can't tell them apart visually and DNA testing indicates they are one and the same. In effect, Zinfandel was just Primitivo which had come from the Checkoslovaquia area.
I had read somewhere along the way that Zinfandel could be traced to Eastern Europe, but never heard before that it was in fact primitivo.
Any info on the subject?
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