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Wine Details
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Description:
Special Bottling ~ With only a limited supply of this fruit available to us in 2003, we bottled this vintage to satisfy an urge for the purple magic that only a good Petite can deliver. This wine has a deep, deep garnet color and is overflowing with a rich flavor profile of blackberries, plums and violets. The long finish is complimented with a slight essence of cocoa and cream.
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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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