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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