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Wine Details
Price:
$32.00 per bottle
Description:
Dry Creek Valley. Huge and jammy, dark purple-black color entice you to breathe deeply. Big vibrant, fruit takes its' place on center stage while the lenthy finish and hughe mouht feel demand an encore. Serve with boldly flavored foods. 14.3% alcohol.
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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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