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Wine Details
Price:
$25.00 per bottle
Description:
Our second vintage of Petite Sirah from the Broll Vineyard is a blockbuster wine of concentrated blackberry jam and blueberry fruit, combined with well integrated soft tannins. This wine was aged for six months in new American oak and then racked to four and five year old French oak barrels for an additional ten months 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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