off to hunt the vineyards of Croatia to bring back cuttings of Plavec Mali, suspected of being the source of Zinfandel. It turned out they had found an descendent, but not yet the elusive Zin itself.

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That Zin was a parent of Plavec Mali led them to the Adriatic island of Šolta, home of Plavec's other parent, the ancient grape Dobričić. Hunting through the vineyards of the Dalmatian Coastal islands they at last stumbled onto a plot of just nine remaining vines of Crljenak Kaštelanski, discovering at last the source of Zinfandel. This hunt and its revelations has led to Zinfandel being referred to in academic circles as "ZPC" – Zinfandel / Primitivo / Crljenak Kaštelanski.

None of this would have been possible without the technology known as DNAEvery year we like to talk about the hundreds of thousands of people that flock to Vegas for EDC or Belgium for Tomorrowland, but one of the biggest festivals in the world — that dwarfs both EDC and Tomorrowland — hardly gets any press on the world stage. I’m talking about Zurich’s Street Parade, held this past Saturday, which regularly draws upwards of a million attendees each year.

Since the end of Love Parade in 2010, Street Parade has become the most attended electronic dance music event in the world. This year, 850,000 people descended upon the streets of Zurich, Switzerland for just a little over 24 hours of pure techno and good vibes.

The event featured 28 love mobiles along the official lakeside route of the Street Parade, on