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Friday, May 3, 2024 - Bought direct from the winery when first offered and stored in my temperature-controlled cellar. Decanted for only about 30 minutes and then followed for a few hours, with a swallow left in the glass for the next morning. I do not have a lot of experience with Petite Sirah. I have been told that it is a 30 year wine and this bottle may confirm that, but I suspect that the source of the story was actually people who confused it with Syrah from the Northern Rhone. There appears to be very little of it being grown in France.

At 13 years, this wine is just starting to open up and display some dark fruit, spices and a meaty roasted component that is very nice. I am not talking roasted as in burnt or smoke taint at all. Roasted as in meaty, with black berries and other brooding fruits, with perhaps some plum. It got better in the glass and had only gone slightly down hill sitting in a glass on a table in the den by the following morning, It probably has 5 more years, at least, to reach its peak, assuming good storage. This is a very enjoyable wine and will stand up to a strong beef-based meal. Just don' drink it with Dover Sole.

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