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Wine Details
Price:
$16.50 per bottle
Description:
Lodi is a region that is particularly well suited to the production of Petite Sirah grapes, as demonstrated in this bottle. Lavish blackberry flavors with generous tannin backbone, this is a wine for stout hearted seekers of "Big Reds". Serving suggestion - outstanding with BBQ pork ribs. Gold Medal and Best in Class awards at the California State Fair.!
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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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