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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.1 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 45 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by pdadams66 on 1/12/2024 & rated 91 points: Fantastic blackberry nose and intense black fruits.
Still needs air, has the potential to age for several more years. (151 views) | | | Tasted by pdadams66 on 12/23/2023 & rated 91 points: Intense stuff, as ever. Super dark center, dark purple rim with no real signs of age.
Needs time to open up (several hours), but then there are blackberries and black plums, pine resin, charcoal.
Fairly dry up front, blueberries and blackberries, sweet black cherry jam, toasty oak, very good tannins and acidity still, alcohol is noticeable (14.7%) but not overwhelming, wood shavings, good fruit on the long finish.
Excellent Petite Sirah, is maturing slowly. Has some of the intensity and flavor of vintage port (not the sweetness). Needs a lot of air still to open up. Now with air or keep for a few more years. (143 views) | | | Tasted by wchrisw on 12/25/2022: Drank over 2 days but opened a day prior to consumption. Rustic fruit, some pepper that comes and goes. Drinking window is open but closing soon. (496 views) | | | Tasted by Rich S on 8/20/2022 & rated 90 points: Popped and poured. Dark, inky crimson color. Lots of oak on the nose for me with some vanilla and coconut coming through along with blackberry jam. Similar flavors on the palate with ripe, dark black and blue fruits along with charred wood and sweet spices. Medium acid, medium+ tannin and body, high alcohol. All together, the wine is drinking pretty well and is in balance but just not my style. Others really enjoyed it. (808 views) | | | Tasted by wchrisw on 5/23/2022: I did not enjoy this. Dry, rustic , no fruit. Very contrary to recent reviews. No reason to hold. (676 views) | | | Tasted by VinCA on 3/27/2022: Floral, slightly metallic on first taste. Still has great structure, good fruit and a long finish, firm, and well integrated tannins. Drinking extremely well 13 years in. (755 views) | | | Tasted by casjf on 3/2/2022 & rated 89 points: Dark plum and black pepper flavors paired well with oxtail stew (844 views) | | | Tasted by casjf on 2/19/2022 & rated 90 points: Dark plum, blackberry, cinnamon, dark chocolate flavors. Excellent petite sirah. (629 views) | | | Tasted by cmmatthews on 2/28/2021 & rated 92 points: Getting better and better. Plenty of life in this. If I had more I would wait another 2-3 years. (987 views) | | | Tasted by asteff on 1/3/2021 & rated 92 points: Really drank nicely. Nice evolution with age, with some roundness to the tannins, and balanced across the palate. (962 views) | | | Tasted by pdadams66 on 12/26/2020 & rated 91 points: Very deep dark center, dark red/purple rim, no real signs of age.
Sweet, blackberries, stone, intense, roast corn, rosemary in the oven, a little spicy.
Some bite to start with, then smooth creamy blackberries, a little creme de mure, good acidity still with tannins on the decline, great finish with notes of candy floss.
Excellent Petite Sirah, good now with a 3 hour decant, will improve over the next 3-5 years. (799 views) | | | Tasted by ogres3 on 8/4/2020 & rated 91 points: Not sure I'd wait much longer on this one. On opening, pleasant nose, full-bodied with ripe dark fruit. After about two hours the nose improves, the wine becomes much smoother, but the fruit becomes just a tad flabby. Finish remains pretty good. (1029 views) | | | Tasted by aaronmphoto on 7/22/2020 & rated 90 points: Needed air to open up. By the second day was drinking well. Complex and delicious. A little light on flavor on day 1 when we opened it (937 views) | | | Tasted by cos65 on 6/24/2020: Served blind
Deep purple black, without any age at the rim, I thought this was much younger
Rich dark berry fruit with a hint of mint, dry, but rich finish. I almost thought this was a newly released Bordeaux at first. This is in beautiful shape and seems like it needs a bit more time (in great contrast to my last bottle 2 years ago)
With 30 minutes in the glass it opened up quite well better fulfilling its origin.
YFS and this particular bottle was quite lovely. (680 views) | | | Tasted by ogres3 on 5/9/2020 & rated 90 points: Have been sitting on this expecting big things. On opening, initial taste is a very water thin wine with lots of acid on the back end. Bleah. After a couple hours becomes a smooth medium bodied wine that is much better paired with food. Nose and finish average. Decent, but a bit disappointing for a PS. (730 views) | | | Tasted by boredo on 3/30/2020: Black and blue fruits on the nose along with black pepper. Notes of cocoa, iron and graphite with very dark fruit and cola flavors. Firm but well integrated tannins with a long, rich finish and balanced acidity. A dark, dense, full bodied and complex wine. (858 views) | | | Tasted by J&Ka on 3/12/2020: Corked! (892 views) | | | Tasted by bjschmitt on 12/5/2019: Drinking quite nicely, power combined with class. (1129 views) | | | Tasted by H2CO3 on 7/8/2019 & rated 93 points: Enjoyed by all. (1297 views) | | | Tasted by Ridgerunner on 3/25/2019 & rated 91 points: Solid Petite Sirah (1340 views) | | | Tasted by PNIELSEN on 1/20/2019 & rated 91 points: The bottle had a little over half-inch fill. The nose was somewhat muted, but it gave up notes of baked dark fruit and flowers. Texturally, the tannin has finally started to soften to point where it comes across as rather round and smooth on the palate into the second glass. The fruit is still plenty ripe but is starting to take on the piquant flavors of an aged wine. Moderate sediment was left in the bottle after decanting (I allowed the bottle to stand upright for a few days prior to opening). This was my last bottle, but I could see this providing pleasurable drinking for anywhere from 5-8 years, depending on what flavors you are looking for in your wine. (1420 views) | | | Tasted by bjschmitt on 8/25/2018 & rated 91 points: Served with grilled, dry seasoned bone-in pork chops, baked sweet potato, fresh tomato salad.
Decanted 15 minutes before pouring. No sediment noticed in the pour.
Look: opaque purple/crimson - full to the rim.
Smell: Jane gets alcohol, dark cherry, perhaps some fig.
Taste: nice soft fruit with the acid balancing things. A smooth and full wine. Stood up to the chops. Still has some time left. (1534 views) | | | Tasted by cos65 on 8/22/2018: Still dark ruby purple
Dry dark blue fruit.
Palate drying tannins,
But comes off as even somewhat elegant at this point?
Nice (1440 views) | | | Tasted by PNIELSEN on 4/6/2018 & rated 92 points: For my palate, this wine is right in the zone for current drinking. Moderately intense nose of warm blackberry jam and a bit of fennel. On the palate, it is very full and rich. Depending on what your leanings are, this is one to either drink fairly soon (as the fruit is starting to turn more savory and piquant) or sit on for a while longer (as there are some chalky tannins left to resolve and tertiary characteristics are starting to emerge). I tend to prefer a riper fruit profile in my wines, so I will probably pop our remaining bottle before the end of the year. That said, the wine should easily go another 7+ years. (1453 views) | | | Tasted by WineAttic on 12/23/2017 & rated 90 points: Paired well at the end of dinner with a lush french custard pie. (1521 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Ridge Producer website | Wikipedia
Ridge Vineyards is a California winery specializing in premium Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, and Chardonnay wines. Ridge produces wine at two winery locations in northern California. The original winery facilities are located at an elevation of 2,300 feet (700 m) on Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA near Cupertino, California. The other Ridge winery facilities are at Lytton Springs in the Dry Creek Valley AVA of Sonoma County.2009 Ridge Petite Sirah Dynamite Hill York Creek Vineyards94% Petite Sirah, 6% Zinfandel 39 Bbls producedPetite 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)Spring Mountain DistrictWikipedia article on the Spring Mountain Distric AVA. |
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