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| Drinking window: Drink between 2009 and 2021 (based on 32 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.5 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by bon vivant on 1/12/2019 & rated 90 points: Super dark and impenetrable color. PNP with a little fine sediment decant. The slight tannic bitterness this showed when young has completely been absorbed and this showed round fruit with good mouth feel. Not hot but has enough stuffing to hold its own well against doug's chilli that had medium spice level. A nice example how age worthy a big pets is but I still think the packaging is stupid with a ridiculously big and heavy bottle (866 views) | | | Tasted by LGlasscock on 7/16/2011 & rated 84 points: Somewhat disappointing...one shouldn't have to decant wine for too long to enjoy it. Rather hot, smoky with bold fruit flavors, brief finish. Perhaps some charred beef with it next time. (2767 views) | | | Tasted by matherjo on 5/14/2010 & rated 86 points: Appearance was dark ruby clear and bright. Nose of blackberry, leather, coconut and chocolate.
Palate was a full frontal fruit - black cherry, plums and berries. Classic New World red had all of the working parts but the finish dropped off quickly and the wine lacked a certain complexity I would expect in this price bracket. (3041 views) | | | Tasted by timdrex on 12/5/2008 & rated 90 points: This wine was a good compliment to steak. (3322 views) | | | Tasted by winenewb068 on 4/17/2008: Hmm....so this is definitely unique. Wasn't sure what to expect going in, but boy did it make an impression! Super dark in the glass - pretty much opaque. On the nose, very extracted fruit and a bit of blood as well. Once you taste the wine, the weight of it really hits you...it's syrupy...unctuous almost. Now, I haven't heard that term used to describe very many wines, save Cheval Blanc, Pavie, and Ausone (not that I'm comparing this to them in any way). However, the term seems to fit here. The finish sort of just drops off disappointingly though. A very interesting wine. (3485 views) |
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Kent Rasmussen Winery
Founded: 1986
Owner: Kent Rasmussen
Location: St. Helena, CA
Since its modest beginnings, the Kent Rasmussen Winery has evolved into one of the most important producers in the Napa region. The winery outgrew its tractor shed barrel room on Cuttings Wharf Road in the Napa Carneros long ago. In 1995, Kent and Celia established a new winemaking facility in a turn of the century slaughterhouse, on the Silverado Trail in St. Helena. Refined over the years, it now houses business offices, an oenology lab and lab tasting room, a wine library and upgraded production equipment. The modern crusher, press, tanks, catwalks, refrigeration systems, pumps, forklift and fruit sorter have greatly enhanced winemaking options. Grapes are either estate grown or under long term contract with reliable growers.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)Rutherford Rutherford,
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