Wine lovers have long cultivated their own peculiar vocabulary. A vintage can be "flinty," "robust" or even "amusingly presumptuous." Never, however, has a wine been discussed in terms of its lemon, lime or coconut flavor. Never, that is, until now. Flavored "pop" wines have arrived and are showing up on liquor-store shelves in ever-increasing numbers and varieties.
The names of the new favorites are in themselves enough to give any true wine lover the pip: Zapple and Boone's Farm (both apple wines), Bali Hai and Key Largo (orange, papaya and other fruit extracts), Spañada...
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