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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.9 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 59 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Nbuck2 on 11/29/2021: According to CellarTracker this wine is passed it’s prime. They say it should have been opened in 2011. We drank this last night (November 2021) and it was delicious. Tasted very jammy with notes of berries, vanilla, oak, and tobacco. The wine was a beautiful deep garnet. Served with a choice prime NY strip. (758 views) | | | Tasted by Border Boss on 5/20/2017: Mostly brown, with some red remaining. Really over the hill, with a palate of leather mostly. There was little fruit remaining. Drink up quickly. (2071 views) | | | Tasted by stewartl on 9/21/2014 & rated 91 points: great bottle of wine Tasted it blind with friends. They thought it was a cab. Dark fruit, some tobacco, vanilla, oak. Very smooth Went great with steak (4121 views) | | | Tasted by MyWineTutor on 10/27/2012: Nice color with grapey bouquet but extremely jammy on the palate with cooked prune and tar-like grape flavors. I don't think this was a flawed bottle but merely way past it's peak. (6204 views) | | | Tasted by ecola on 8/1/2012 & rated 90 points: Very pure blueberry and blackberry with a silky mouthfeel. Tannins are starting to resolve. Initially tasted of prunes, but a little air brought out the dark fruit. Drinking very nice right now and probably over the next year or so. No evidence of 15.5%. (6280 views) | | | Tasted by RobAtSGH on 7/3/2011 & rated 90 points: Big, big, BIG wine - blackberry and black cherry, pepper and spice on the nose. Vanilla, blackberry, baking spice transitioning to deep, concentrated blackberry/blueberry, black pepper, cedar box, and a solid but velvety tannin structure. Alcohol is 15.5%, but very well contained. If there were more complexity here, this would be a great wine. As is, it is straight-forward and hedonistic. (7819 views) | | | Tasted by dsarendt on 6/3/2011: Given to Kevin - Tile Guy for Shower good job done (7282 views) | | | Tasted by ecola on 2/3/2011 & rated 90 points: This wine is big and bold and punches you right in mouth. Loads of blackberry and blueberry, some herbal action and tar. A bomb that is well made and structured. ($15) (5004 views) | | | Tasted by wadcorp on 11/20/2010 & rated 89 points: As others have noted, this is a very fruit-forward wine, but I'm not viewing that as a flaw. Deep color. Notes of dark cherry, spice box & earth going on. Rich mouthfeel. Some particulate settling on the down-side of the bottle, which is not surprising as this one has loitered in our racks for over two years. (3627 views) | | | Tasted by jeffal66 on 8/15/2010 & rated 88 points: Intense, very fruit forward. Almost fake levels of grape attack. For my palate, more restrain would help this wine. (3835 views) | | | Tasted by nogohawk on 8/9/2010 & rated 89 points: Drank over 3 ights - good QPR; nice smoke & spice; dark purple color w/ nice finish (3739 views) | | | Tasted by Loweeel on 7/22/2010 & rated 90 points: Dark fruits, very round and full, but well-balanced. Drinking quite nicely at the moment. (5319 views) | | | Tasted by nogohawk on 6/30/2010 & rated 89 points: Drank over 3 nights - same notes as before; good QPR (3949 views) | | | Tasted by nogohawk on 6/4/2010 & rated 89 points: Drank over 2 nights - same notes as before; good QPR (4070 views) | | | Tasted by nogohawk on 5/30/2010 & rated 89 points: Great wine for the price - smoke & spice with a nice finish; will definitely pick up a few more bottles. (4084 views) | | | Tasted by nogohawk on 5/23/2010 & rated 90 points: Wow - what a great wine for $16; exellent QPR; dark ruby color with moke, spice & plum - nice finish; Been a while since I've had a Petite Syrah - will definitely be picking up a few more bottles. (4122 views) | | | Tasted by dontime on 4/26/2010 & rated 89 points: Dark magenta, but not as dark as I had expected. Nowhere near black. There is an initial rush of dark fruit on the nose which quickly turns into dirty mushrooms and smoke. On the palate blackberry jam and plum rule, with more hints of earth and mushrooms. Seems a tad bit hot, but balanced tannins bring this to a pleasant conclusion. (4376 views) | | | Tasted by ckeilah on 4/20/2010 & rated 90 points: As with everything else from Lodi, this opens with a roundhouse to the nose. BIG jammy, powerful, alcoholic... After a few minutes breathing the alcohol disipates and it settles down to a deep dark dense thicket of blackberries and mushroomy earth. Deep and dark as a copse at midnight on a moonless night is the near black garnet appearance too. The mouth is lovely, smooth, nice dark fruits, but not much else. It's not roll your eyes back in your head, but I wish I had a case! YUMMY! (4391 views) | | | Tasted by bugdoced on 4/11/2010: We had this with chicken picatta and it paired well;a good drinker now (4405 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 3/30/2010 & rated 84 points: Deep berry, vanilla nose; deep berry, vanilla palate; medium finish (3557 views) | | | Tasted by schuey on 2/14/2010 & rated 88 points: Strong raisins on the nose that carry into the first sip. Dark fruits throughout with some mocha on the tail end. Very enjoyable even the second night. (4494 views) | | | Tasted by 97 Point Red on 1/3/2010 & rated 91 points: Opened 2 hours prior to drinking. Excellent berry nose with hints of vanilla, not over the top. had with heavily peppered steak and the balance was excellent. Last glass around four hours opened, still excellent. (4854 views) | | | Tasted by woodwardcellar on 11/22/2009 & rated 90 points: Wow. Bold and amazing. Dark berry fruit through the nose, early and mid palate. Great finish, long and enjoyable. This was great. (4859 views) | | | Tasted by MoreWinePlease on 10/23/2009 & rated 88 points: Tasty w/no tannin clampdown. (3681 views) | | | Tasted by LarryInBrookline on 10/12/2009 & rated 86 points: Nice start, acts like it s going to be interesting but stays somewhat one dimensional; syrupy finish that was too much for me (5217 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Petite Sirah Varietal character (Appellation America) | P.S. I Love You: A Petite Sirah Advocacy Organization
Petite Sirah is a variety of red wine grape grown in France, California, Israel and Australia. Recently, wineries located in Washington State's Yakima Valley, Maryland, Arizona, West Virginia, Mexico, Chile's Colchagua Valley and Maipo Valley, and Ontario's Niagara Peninsula have also produced wines from Petite Sirah grapes. Though developed in France, it is nearly extinct there as of 2002, hanging on in limited plantings in the Isère and Ardêche regions of the Rhône Valley and in Palette, a tiny appellation in Provence. It is the main grape known in the US and Israel as Petite Sirah with over 90% of the California plantings labeled "Petite Sirah" being Durif grapes; the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms recognizes "Durif" and "Petite Sirah" as interchangeable synonyms referring to the same grape. The grape originated as a cross of Syrah pollen germinating a Peloursin plant. On some occasions, Peloursin and Syrah vines may be called Petite Sirah, usually because the varieties are extremely difficult to distinguish in old age.
The 'petite' in the name of this grape refers to the size of its berries and not the vine, which is particularly vigorous. The leaves are large with a bright green upper surface and paler green lower surface. The grape forms tightly packed clusters that can be susceptible to rotting in rainy environments. The small berries creates a high skin to juice ratio which can produce very tannic wines if the juice goes through an extended maceration period. In the presence of new oak barrels the wine can develop an aroma of melted chocolate.
Petite Sirah produces dark, inky colored wines that are relatively acidic with firm texture and mouth feel. The bouquet has herbal and black pepper overtones, with plum and blackberry flavors on the palate. Compared to Syrah, the wine is noticeably more dark and purplish in color. The wines are very tannic with aging ability that can eclipse 20 years in the bottle.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Central Valley The Central California Winegrowers (Official site) | Central Valley (California Wine Institute)Lodi Lodi Woodbridge Winegrape Commission | Lodi District Grape Growers Association |
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