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Wine Details
Price:
$28.00 per bottle
Description:
Over the years, we have seen this fruit produce wines with perfume-like qualities and consistently moderate tannins, a tribute to the Cranston Brothers’ farming techniques. Deep, dark color and aromas of ripe plum and blueberry lead to a mouth-filling mélange of juicy berries and plum on the palette. Add rose petal, black pepper, with some tannins for structure, and the result is a wine that is round and supple on the palette, with enough weight and length to be taken seriously. Described by The Wine Tutor, John Thoreen, as “Fleshy and sexy,” this is one outright delicious red.
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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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