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Wine Details
Price:
$20.00 per bottle
Description:
Our newest Petite Sirah from my two favorite vineyards in Lodi and in the tradition of John Christopher Cellars’ Petite Sirah, this is a full-bodied red wine with a wonderfully smooth texture and great flavor of blueberries that will linger on your palate. A touch of vanilla and toasted oak add to this complex and intense wine. Exhibiting deep color and soft tannins, this is a wine that you can enjoy now or could easily lie down for a few years. Enjoy with red meats, especially lamb and steak or a hearty soup.
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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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