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Wine Details
Price:
$26.00 per bottle
Description:
This Petite is built like a Mack truck and has a definite “don’t mess with me” attitude. Toasty oak wraps around more subtle aromas of richly ripened fruit, mocha and earth. These same qualities are reflected in the flavors—ripe dark fruit, French roast coffee and cocoa blend with hints of earth and tar. The foundation of oak, tannins and lively acid create an intense and robust wine that softens a bit with airing, producing a luscious, smooth wine with a dynamic finish.
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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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