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Small Block Series Petite Sirah

Small Block Series Petite Sirah Wine Details
Price: $36.00 per bottle

Description: Tended to by the same family for over 75 years, the vineyard produces grapes with lush black fruit qualities. The fruit profile shows through on this wine and envelopes your mouth with an essence of blackberry and cassis.

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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