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Wine Details
Price:
$25.00 per bottle
Description:
This garnet red Petite has lots of tannins. A peppery, licorice taste with a good combination of ripe red fruit & spices. A hint of plums, blackberry and blueberry. Silver Medal at the 2005 SF Chronicle Competition.
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Varietal Definition
Petite Sirah:
Petite Sirah is the same as the French variety known as Durif, a cross of Peloursin, with the true Syrah. A French nurseryman, Dr. François Durif, propagated the grape trying for resistance to powdery mildew and named it after himself, in the 1870s. Petite Sirah has long been an important blending grape, prized primarily for its deep color and fairly intense tannin. It is the variety most often chosen to blend into Zinfandel for added color, complexity, body, and to tone down the tendency of Zins toward "jammy" fruit.
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