Today's Geek Question: What Is Tribidrag???

Well.....none other than Zinfandel. I have, of course, followed Tribidrag from the very start.
Tom

As posted on CaroleMeredith's FaceBook page:
My Croatian research colleagues have long suspected that the old Croatian grape variety Tribidrag was the same as Crljenak kastelanski, which is the modern Croatian name for Zinfandel. They have now confirmed this by purifying and analyzing DNA from an old herbarium specimen of Tribidrag and comparing it to Zinfandel. The DNA profiles are a perfect match. Tribidrag is documented to have been grown in Croatia for at least 500 years.

Pronuciation, please!

Anagram: I R DIRTBAG

Pronounced just like it sounds. (In contrast to many other varieties from that part of the world.) And then there's also Pribidrag, another name for the same variety. And we can't forget Kratosija, yet another name. My Croatian research colleagues and I have taken to referring to the variety as ZPC (for Zinfandel/Primitivo/Crljenak kastelanski), but I guess we should really call it ZPCTPK.

whatever happened to good old Plavic Mali(spelling?) or soemthing close enough?

whatever happened to good old Plavic Mali(spelling?) or soemthing close enough?

A relative, but not genetically identical. Mike Grgich championed it as the ancestral Zinfandel, but later Prof. Meredith found that it was a scion of Zinfandel resulting from a cross between it and Dobričić.

Aren't you sorry now that you asked?

Mark Lipton
(at least I spared you a discussion of single nucleotide polymorphisms and restriction enzyme digests)

Pronounced just like it sounds. (In contrast to many other varieties from that part of the world.) And then there's also Pribidrag, another name for the same variety. And we can't forget Kratosija, yet another name. My Croatian research colleagues and I have taken to referring to the variety as ZPC (for Zinfandel/Primitivo/Crljenak kastelanski), but I guess we should really call it ZPCTPK.

Uhhhhh, Carole....Steve played hooky the day they covered pronunciation in 3'rd grade.
You'd better help him w/ the pronunciation on that last one!!!!
Tom

Mark: appreciate the reply and no, I am not sorry I asked, will prevent me from continuing to make an ongoing mistake re Plavic Mali and zin, will now just say that it originated from the dirtbag grape and refer all questions in that regard to Steve