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Wine Details
Price:
$28.00 per bottle
Description:
The grapes were harvested in October, 1999 from the Rhodes Vineyard in Redwood Valley. We make Petite Sirah mainly for blending with Zinfandel as it provides color, spiciness and mid-palate. However in some years, such as 1999, the wine is so good that we have to bottle some of it on its own. This year, half of the grapes came from a 60 year old block of vines while the other half was from 5 year old vines propagated from cuttings off the older block. The must was fermented for 15 days in small fermentors using commercial yeast and natural yeast. Although tannin levels in the resulting wines were higher in the wine from the younger vines, the flavors were remarkably similar! It was aged 15 months in French and American oak (40 percent new) before bottling in March, 2001. This is a powerhouse wine that nevertheless has great finesse--our tasting room personnel like to describe it as ``velvet in the mouth''. The wine has deep, jammy black fruit and spice flavors and fine tannins that will enable this wine to mature for a number of years.
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