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Wine Details
Price:
$60.00 per bottle
Description:
Only 45 cases of Petite Sirah were produced from a 4 acre Blockhouse Vineyard in Yountville. This remarkable Petite Sirah drew rave reviews at the Aspen Food and Wine Classic where we poured some samples last June. We had a few offers for the whole lot! This Petite Sirah is inky black with loads of spice, much like an Aussie McLaren Vale Shiraz
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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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Shiraz:
Alternate name for the french Syrah clone grape grown in Australia and responsible for very big red wines that are not quite as intense in flavor as the french Rhone versions.
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