The Zinfandel grape is also widely used in the popular off-dry blush wine known as White Zinfandel. Karen MacNeil, wine writer and author of the upcoming book, The Wine Primer, has trained thousands of chefs and waiters in understanding wine. She found if she told her students that, for example, a wine had high alcohol content, high acidity and good body, the students had a hard time remembering that. So, she took a different approach, describing wines in terms of personalities, using celebrities as examples. The system works for MacNeil.
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