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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.4 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Sauvyfan on 3/14/2012 & rated 93 points: Limited experience with PS, but I like what I'm tasting. Decanted two hours, poured back to bottle. Regally purple in color, with teeth staining intensity. Plum, sandelwood, macerated black cherries on the nose. Black and blue on the palate with pitch perfect balance. Drinking beautifully now! Hard to find any faults. My first Hayfork. This will make it much more difficult to sit on the Cabs. (2650 views) | | | Tasted by mmurry on 12/25/2011 & rated 92 points: Decanted about 2 hours. Meat and black fruit on the nose, with hints of pepper and floral notes. The backend has some leather and red fruit, and just a touch of smoke. Rich and juicy on the palate with ripe tannins and dark fruit. The mid-palate is meaty and spicy, and it finishes with a little smoky leather. (2791 views) | | | Tasted by elamasters on 3/6/2011 & rated 90 points: Very good petite sirah. Not too heavy or tannic. (3113 views) | | | Tasted by River Rat on 7/12/2010: Big, tannic and full of dark fruit flavor. Needs lots of bottle time. Liked the test drive though. Will definitely buy more. (3233 views) |
| Hayfork Producer websitePetite 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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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