Life Style / Wine Grapes / Primitivo (Di Gioia): Also known as Zingarello. Minor variety mainly confined to Apulia in southern Italy where it is used to produce a heavy, robust portlike red wine made from raisined grapes. The widely grown Plavac Mali c?page, also known as Mali Plavac, variety found in Dalmatia - (a province of Croatia, also part of the former Yugoslavia) - contains several mutated varieties. According to a recent report, (7/98), one or more of these appear to share some DNA characteristics with Primitivo indicating a possible parental *or* offspring relationship. Recent DNA analysis (reported 2001) has shown that while there still appears to be a (mutation/clonal?) relationship to California's Zinfandel, that latter vine is identical to the Crljenak variety of Croatia.
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Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Primitivo (Di Gioia): Also known as Zingarello. Minor variety mainly confined to Apulia in southern Italy where it is used to produce a heavy, robust portlike red wine made from raisined grapes. The widely grown Plavac Mal MORE
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