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Wine Details
Price:
$16.00 per bottle
Description:
Named for the original 1896 plantings (some of those vines are still producing), the Old Patch Red has remained the all-time favorite wine among legions of Trentadue fans for the past three decades. Although the blend composition varies slightly with the vintage, the idea of the pre-Prohibition “field blend” favored by the early European settlers is still intriguing to me. The color of this wine is deep dark red with a purple hue. The ‘03 OPR is a bit heavier on the Zin and Petite Sirah showing concentrated raspberry, blackberry and jammy blueberry aromas. The second impression is of forest floor, chocolate mint and vanilla. On the palate the wine enters with juicy cherry and plums followed by balanced acidity and tannins that carry all the way to a long finish. This is a serious wine that will benefit from 2-5 years of aging.
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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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