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Farm Dog Red

Farm Dog Red Wine Details
Price: $17.58 per bottle

Description: Currant, chocolate and berry aromas introduce this silky, dry red, livening the palate with a well-balanced range of fruit flavors ending in a long, warm finish. Saucy and bold as Lucy, Ten Spoon’s top farm dog, this blend of estate-grown Maréchal Foche and Mendocino County Petite Sirah brings out the best of both varieties. Excellent with strong cheeses, hearty menus and rich desserts. No sulfites added

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.
Marechal Foch:
A french-american hybrid grape, with french Alsace Gamay origins, noted for producing deeply colored and strongly varietal wines considered by some to have a "Burgundian" character. Also known under the name Foch.


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