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Wine Details
Price:
$32.00 per bottle
Description:
The wine is really impressive for its dense, inky purple-black color, and mouth filling soft tannins. It has ripe blue-fruit aromas very much like blueberry and blackberry, with traces of violet flower and black pepper; and it is thick, rich and flavorful on the palate. It is such a showy wine that it may be most appreciated accompanied simply by cheese such as Manchego or Humboldt Fog blue and a baguette.
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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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