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| Drinking window: Drink between 2006 and 2010 (based on 4 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.3 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by FoodMuse on 11/13/2011 & rated 90 points: Opened in 2011, with 8 years of aging behind it, and this was still a blockbuster. Dark purplish-red in coloring, and so thick it almost looks black. Thick on the palate as well. Tannins still quite pronounced. I think this could have cellared another decade with no issue whatsoever. Intense flavors of leather, cassis, dried cherries, blackberries, tobacco, and oak. Nose of marzipan and currant jelly. This is a fairly complex wine from the people who first bottled the varietal. (1821 views) | | | Tasted by GolferChris on 9/26/2007 & rated 88 points: Very good value. Interesting, rich, big fruit and deep wine for the price. Shows the promise of the Petite Sirah grape as you can get a pleasuable wine for less that $15. (1872 views) | | | Tasted by decaturwinedude on 12/20/2005 & rated 88 points: Nice QPR at $10. Simple blueberry and spice, not much complexity. Nice and sweet upfront, but a dry, short finish.
Would be a crowd pleaser. However, for QPR these days I'd just as soon go for a Spanish or Aussie red. (2350 views) | | | Tasted by texaswino on 4/8/2005 & rated 87 points: Very grapey color and aromas. Looks almost like Welch's grape juice in the glass. This wine is better the second day after opening. I decanted this for 6+ hours on day one and it was still pretty primal. Day two and the flavors have smoothed out some. Blueberry and pepper flavors and gripping tannins, chewey and super ripe. (2703 views) | | | Tasted by Aliaslca on 4/1/2005: This was a very nice, robust wine with thick, not too sweet, jammy flavor. (2848 views) | | | Tasted by cab on 3/28/2005: Not quite as good as previously (2001 or 2002?) and a dollar or two more expensive. Still OK, but not the amazing concentrated bargain it was before. Now a little vinegary, pretty tannic but slightly lacking the fruit to stand up to it. Not a bad choice, but not the QPR wunderkind I was hoping for. (1795 views) |
| Concannon Vineyard Producer website
Concannon Vineyards was founded in 1883 in Livermore, California and is a registered historical site. They were the first to bottle a varietal petite sirah in 1961. Owned by conglomerate The Wine Group, the Concannon family, including patriarch Jim Concannon, is still involved in running the winery, which produces several tens of thousands of cases a year.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 Central Coasthttp://www.ccwinegrowers.org/links.html
http://www.discovercaliforniawines.com/regional-wine-organizations/
http://beveragetradenetwork.com/en/btn-academy/list-of-winegrowers-association-in-central-coast-california-274.htm
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