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| Drinking window: Drink between 2023 and 2034 (based on 7 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.8 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 42 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by rogervanzant357 on 4/21/2024 & rated 90 points: Very good profile and structure. Very grippy tannins. (354 views) | | | Tasted by Lukas_w on 3/31/2024 & rated 88 points: Deep stewed purple fruits, cassis and black licorice, blackberry. A little bit of acid could have gone a long way in not making this wine flabby. (541 views) | | | Tasted by Quaesitori on 3/23/2024 & rated 91 points: Leather, cherries, and plum on the nose. A tad watery on the palate. Lots of wood and tobacco, and some nice sweetness throughout. Goood to enjoy during or after a hearty meal. (593 views) | | | Tasted by Hungry_Jorge on 2/10/2024 & rated 91 points: Third time having this and I think it’s legit good. A little grippy at first, but opens up very quickly. Structured wine with great red fruit. (757 views) | | | Tasted by Ringkals on 12/25/2023: Christmas 2023 (1033 views) | | | Tasted by PIntag on 11/17/2023 & rated 91 points: My brother blinded me on this at an informal tasting. Seeing the color, I was able to rule out all but a few varieties. The strong tannic presence and brooding flavor profile pointed me to Petite Sirah, as it was very clearly a new world wine. Not too many regions to choose from for PS, so I went with Sonoma County, 2019 vintage. Pretty good guess as it turned out! (1287 views) | | | Tasted by cos65 on 10/2/2023 & rated 89 points: Deep inky purple
This is still rather backward with a ton of structure.
With air, some sweet dark fruit peeks through and hopefully holds out while letting the tannins soften with time.
Hold (1413 views) | | | Tasted by brady.lambert on 7/17/2023 & rated 88 points: $40 at the grocery store. Maybe a bit generous with score, but this is very drinkable! Perhaps bettered only by their family owned neighbor's (Quixote) Petite Sirah. Maybe a Stag's Leap thing. Great color, flavor, nose, aftertaste. Very decent for the price. (1618 views) | | | Tasted by cos65 on 6/27/2023 & rated 89 points: Deep inky purple.
Dark berry aromas
Very approachable and tasty now, with a dry finish. We’ll see if this fleshes out a bit more over time (1253 views) | | | Tasted by Buythecase on 6/27/2023 & rated 93 points: Deep, deep black cherry color, plum and cocoa, a bit. Herbal on the finish too. Very, very tasty. (1528 views) | | | Tasted by Rose Garden on 6/22/2023: Nice with Lamb chops (1074 views) | | | Tasted by beeg612 on 6/18/2023 & rated 88 points: Dark purple bowl, almost opaque, turning lighter purple at the rim. Tons of blackberries, crushed blueberries, notes of tobacco leaf and spice on the nose. Palate is blueberries, blackberries, chocolate covered cherries, not much spice or earth. Medium plus tannins and medium acidity. Good, nothing special. (694 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff U on 6/18/2023: Excellent & delicious (946 views) | | | Tasted by DanielJ on 5/29/2023 & rated 90 points: Pleasant. Nice fruit. Easy to drink (882 views) | | | Tasted by DanielJ on 5/16/2023 & rated 89 points: Nice. Not wildly interesting but pleasant (960 views) | | | Tasted by Sp@rk on 1/20/2023 & rated 88 points: Had a half bottle. Nice and smooth. Not too acidic. (1516 views) | | | Tasted by cos65 on 1/13/2023 & rated 89 points: Full throttle PS
Delicious, and full bodied while avoiding being over the top. Nice wine (1389 views) | | | Tasted by Robwild on 12/28/2022 & rated 90 points: Full bodied. Oak, leather, cassis, plum and vanilla. Firm tannins and f good structure. (1403 views) | | | Tasted by Acove on 8/17/2022 & rated 88 points: 30min-1hr decant. Medium + purple color, less deep than expected. On the nose, sugar plum, blueberry, vanilla, spice, new french oak. On the palate, heavy body, some dark fruit up front, teeth coating medium tannin, rather fine grained, medium - acid. Midpalate seems a bit empty, and finish is medium and I get some green steaminess. Over extracted for sure, but not too hot which was one of my concerns. Overall, drinkable, but a bit disappointing. Not worth the $40 I spent. Can see how it can appeal to some. Will give it more air and see what happens. (1654 views) | | | Tasted by Smcolivas on 4/13/2022 & rated 89 points: Nice and smooth. Short zing and enoyable. (1683 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Stags' Leap Winery Producer website
NOTE: This is easily confused with Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, but Stags' Leap Winery is a different winery. [StagsLeap See details here].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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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