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Wine Details
Price:
$24.00 per bottle
Description:
While there are many in the wine industry that would have you attaining your doctorate in order to properly match foods and wine, we here at the Twisted Oak Institute couldn't care less what you pair this Petite Sirah with. In fact, throw out the rules! Live a little! Get crazy! Pour it on your corn flakes, drink it with applesauce, wash down a tuna on rye, try it without pants! We don't care!
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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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