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Wine Details
Price:
$26.00 per bottle
Description:
Gold Medal Winner 2006! The 30 year old Petite Sirah vines, growing on their own roots in our cool Los Alamos vineyard, were harvested in a warm 2003, reaching full ripeness before the rains came. Fermented with labor intensive hand-punching and barrel aged for 17 months, this wine has a deep black-purple color with aromas & flavors of ripe blackberry and ollalieberry. Complete with a big, smooth mouthfeel and ripe smooth tannins, finishing smooth with a warm palate impression.
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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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