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Wine Details
Price:
$30.00 per bottle
Description:
This full bodied wine bursts with black currant, plum and chocolate on the nose, which is followed by a hint of tobacco and earth. Your palate will indulge in the surrounding flavors of blackberry, plum, spice and vanilla. The plush round tannin and the subtle oak background make for an extremely well balanced wine. This wine is so rich and powerful that one glass will get you hooked on this varietal. The history of Petite Sirah has been a bit of a mystery, but one thing we know for sure is that this wine is anything but “Petite”. So, get your palette ready for an amazing experience!
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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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