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Wine Details
Price:
$17.00 per bottle
Description:
Our 2000 Petite Sirah has a deep purple color and a spicy, earthy bouquet. There is lots of fruit in the taste, with concentrated cherry flavor and layers of intensity. A smooth wine, it has a long lingering dry finish. Enjoy with grilled sausage, cheeses, beef, wild boar and venison.
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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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