| If you are relatively new to the world of wine | | | | produced is actually clear, and it is the pigments in |
| then you will probably have come across white | | | | the skin which give the wine it's colour. With rose |
| Zinfandel wines and rose wines. The common | | | | wine the skin has very little contact with the juice, |
| misconception is that these wines are the same | | | | being removed very early in the fermentation |
| as they are roughly the same colour and some | | | | process, between a few hours to a few days, so |
| were called "Zinfandel" as a way to make them | | | | that the liquid is only lightly coloured. The skin is |
| appear a bit more upmarket. The fact is they | | | | left in for much longer when making red wine, |
| have different names because they are different. | | | | anything from several weeks to a few months. |
| So let's start with rose wine. It is made using the | | | | This also helps explain why red wine is supposedly |
| same grapes - ie red, purple and black- as red | | | | better for you as most of the life-saving qualities |
| wine. When these grapes are crushed the juice | | | | are in the skin. |