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[Wine Discussion] People look down on White Zin for the same reason they look down on cheap beer, tap water, and McDonald's coffee. Certainly it does the job if quenching your thirst or getting drunk is your primary goal, but at the end of the day it's hard to find, and frankly not worth the search, to find a white zin that's as complex and appreciable as most of the wines that bring us to communities like

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