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Wine Details
Price:
$22.00 per bottle
Description:
An impenetrable black ruby color foretells the concentration of this monster wine. Effusive blue fruits, including blackberries, blueberries and boysenberries are framed by an earthy elegance that dominates the nose of this wine. Big ripe tannins balance the richness without being astringent resulting in a mouth feel that is almost permanent. Easily able to age for a minimum of 10 years, enjoy this wine with rack of lamb, duck confit, brazed beef or osso buco.
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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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