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Wine Details
Price:
$24.00 per bottle
Description:
This Petite Sirah is velvety and intense and displays a lavish array of flavors. Before it even reaches the taste buds the nose is enchanted with hints of dried rose petals, brown sugar and earthy aromas. This multifaceted wine strikes the palate with nuances of tobacco, sun dried plum, blueberries and fig.
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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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