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Wine Details
Price:
$25.00 per bottle
Description:
2000 Petite Sirah Rodney’s Vineyard, Santa Barbara County, 100% Barrel aged and fermented in 1/3 new French Oak; 15.1% alcohol; 254 cases produced.
This full-bodied wine burst with black currant, plum and chocolate on the nose, which is followed by a hint of tobacco and earth. Your palate will indulge in the surrounding flavors of blackberry, plum, spice and vanilla. The plush round tannin and the subtle oak background make for an extremely well balanced wine. This Petite Sirah will pair well with a braised lamb shank or a casoulet.
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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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