31.   Red grapes like merlot, pinot noir and zinfandel are enjoying a renaissance because the lighter, fruity taste are in particularly short supply, winemakers said.

32.   Rose wines are usually made from red grapes, but the skins are removed early in the winemaking process to prevent them from turning the wine deep red.

33.   Red grapes are used to make most roses.

34.   Soon, to meet the demand, resourceful winemakers were turning their unwanted red grapes into anemic pink blush wines.

35.   Some years ago Asselin and Morlat planted a number of test parcels in their region with cabernet franc, the red varietal grape that does well there.

36.   Studies have singled out red wine as especially beneficial because of anti-oxidant and anti-clotting substances in the skins of red grapes.

37.   That makes zin the tops in total acreage for red grapes in California, outpacing cabernet sauvignon and merlot, courtesy of the pink zin phenomenon.

38.   Syrah is the red grape of the northern Rhone.

39.   The two parents were gouais blanc and Pinot, a fine red wine grape whose pedigree stretches back to the first century A.D.

40.   They created a generation of wine drinkers unaware that zinfandel is a red grape.