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Wine Details
Price:
$54.00 per bottle
Description:
Silver Medal—San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Dense blackberry and black pepper are evident in this our first bottling of Petite Sirah. Deeply colored and robust, the wine has more than enough fruit and acidity to guarantee longevity in the bottle.
Our Petite Sirah Vineyard is protected by our steep Valley hills which cradle the Vezér Family Estate. So often Petite Sirah is considered only for the most complicated of wine lovers. However, with the Vezér’s Estate Petite Sirah all will be able to enjoy its splendid fruit and soft seductive finishes.
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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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