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Wine Details
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Description:
Not a traditional Porto variety, Petite Sirah nevertheless produces excellent ports due to its robust fruit and tannin content. This wine is intensely purple in color with a nose loaded with blackberry, plum and Bing cherries. The mouth feel is heavy with mouth coating tannins and gobs of plums, blueberries and blackberries. It should age superbly up to 15 years.
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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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