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 Vintage2000 Label 1 of 54 
TypeRed
ProducerVincent Arroyo (web)
VarietyPetite Sirah
Designationn/a
Vineyardn/a
CountryUSA
RegionCalifornia
SubRegionNapa Valley
AppellationNapa Valley

Drinking Windows and Values
Drinking window: Drink between 2006 and 2011 (based on 5 user opinions)
Wine Market Journal quarterly auction price: See Vincent Arroyo Petite Sirah on the Wine Market Journal.

Community Tasting History

Community Tasting Notes (average 90.8 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text

 Tasted by GrapeVineAtlanta on 8/21/2015 & rated 95 points: 15 years of aging. Opens up quickly and delivers a great experience. Slightly tobacco nose with a smooth and not too dry taste, very cherry and raspberries. (1140 views)
 Tasted by danscellar on 3/6/2012 & rated 91 points: Very nice, drinking well. Just what you would expect from a Vince Petite Sirah (2249 views)
 Tasted by danscellar on 11/3/2011 & rated 91 points: Classic Vince Petite Sirah (2264 views)
 Tasted by bound4er on 7/11/2010 & rated 89 points: Dark cherry and a hint of alcohol on the nose. Very refined on the palate with a slow building dark cherry flavor finish mated with soft tannins and good acidity.Paired nicely with grilled flank steak. Not as complex as other vintages I have had but very nice nonetheless. Drink now or hold for another few years. (2791 views)
 Tasted by PSirah Tampa on 10/31/2008 & rated 92 points: Opened and immediately poured. Tight nose upon first exposure, but blossomed nicely with 10 minutes of exposure to air. It showed a beautiful dark color, very youthful. The components of the wine have come into balance, creating an elegant soft black fruit elixir. This is not a big in-your-face fruit bomb, but rather a beautiful expression of what Petite Sirah can be. Building excitement in the mouth, it had a long, lingering finish. Although it will likely hang on for another 10 years, it's ready to drink now and I don't see it getting any better. (2832 views)
 Tasted by Paul from the Oblong Table on 8/9/2003 & rated 90 points: Excellent, Excellent (90++) (1701 views)

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Vincent Arroyo

Producer website

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.

USA

American 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.

California

2021 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

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