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Wine Details
Price:
$18.00 per bottle
Description:
Grapes grown on a rocky ridge overlooking the Consumnes River struggle to make this big and bold Petite Sirah. Everything about this wine is intense from its deep purple color to its flavors of blueberries and blackberries framed by toasty oak.
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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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