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Wine Details
Price:
$11.99 per bottle
Description:
This wine has a great plum color. In the nose is strong plum and tree fruit with a floral note as well. There is also a creamy chocolate orange aroma. The palate is sweet up front with a good coating of soft tannin and viscous alcohol. The finish leaves spicy licorice and roasted coffee beans in the back of the palate. This wine will leave you waiting for the prefect accompaniment of Prime Rib, roasted lamb or just sitting by the roaring fire while you enjoy the evening and a special box of chocolate.
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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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