How to Use zero-zero in a Sentence

zero-zero

adjective
  • This is where the zero-zero winemakers get truly radical.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • But zero-zero wines may also invite more intense criticism.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • If a wine were to go seriously downhill, some zero-zero winemakers would sooner get rid of it than fix it with sulfur.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The zero-zero movement puts those dynamics into overdrive.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • And then there’s a plethora of zero-zero wines being made in California right now that look crystal-clear and taste pristine.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Many zero-zero winemakers would say their aim is to let a wine freely express terroir, unobstructed by a winemaker’s hand.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • So is a zero-zero wine that gets overtaken by a bacterial problem just an example of nature taking its course, something that ought to be embraced?
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • If natural wine felt experimental and cool, its zero-zero subcategory feels even more so.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • While a few California winemakers like Tony Coturri have made zero-zero wines for years, even decades, more local vintners have started recently.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Since 2017, nearly 20 new zero-zero wine labels have popped up in Northern California, with some of their wines just hitting the shelves for the first time in the past year.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • San Francisco now has two wine shops dealing exclusively in zero-zero wine, Ruby in Potrero Hill and the forthcoming Bar Part Time in the Mission.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The zero-zero winemakers of Northern California There are many natural winemakers throughout California who produce some zero-zero wines but also some wines with small sulfur additions.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • As at Bar Part Time, which Dolezal owns with Jeremy Castillo and Dan Small, the wine selection will be zero-zero — the most stringent category of natural wine, in which nothing (not even the preservative sulfur dioxide) is added or removed during the winemaking process.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026

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