| 31. | Because of a general lack of commercialization in Apulia, Primitivo is still largely unknown outside of Italy.
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| 32. | Primitivo married twice, first to Eladia L�pez de Iturralde, who died in C�diz in June 1884.
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| 33. | She attended business classes at the University of Texas at Austin before marrying Primitivo Orozco Vega in 1950.
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| 34. | For a while, primitivo was a prime suspect in the mystery surrounding the origin of the zinfandel grape.
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| 35. | This is based on its close resemblance to a grape called the primitivo di Gioia, found in southern Italy.
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| 36. | The first documented use of the term " Primitivo " appears in Italian governmental publications of the 1870s.
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| 37. | Frequently hailed as the most American of the noble grapes, it may actually be the primitivo grape of southern Italy.
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| 38. | For years, it was believed that the California vine called Zinfandel was the same as the Primitivo of southern Italy.
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| 39. | Then a decade ago we were told to forget about primitivo, that zinfandel was plavac mali, a Croatian grape.
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| 40. | Meanwhile, plantings of Primitivo have increased in California, where it seems to grow somewhat less vigorously than its sibling.
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