1999 Lorca Petite Sirah

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 87.5 points

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  12/11/2007 - Loweeel wrote: 86 Points

  The Lorca 1999 Petite Sirah Napa Valley ($23 @ WL, no longer available there; tasted 12/11/07) is the oldest vintage PS that I can find on the shelves without too much difficulty. As befits an older PS, its fruit is more hidden and it is much more cranky. This was the wine that changed the most, and not in the same way over the night. For tasting this, I was joined by my friend Aileen, a fellow wine.wooter; we had both this and the next wine both with grilled steak and with clean PalateS. and at first sat open for about 90 minutes before first consumption.
  
  Initially, this wine smelled of cassis, going to cherry, which matched its dark ruby red color. It felt somewhat round in the mouth, with a not-unpleasant sour kick on the long finish. We discovered that the long finish was in large part due to our consumption of steak and theorized that the taste ParticleS were binding to the meat residue on our palates; after drinking water, the wine neither had such a long finish nor was particularly PleaSant at first, with the pepper notes predominating. The non-fruit tasting elements also consisted of black pepper and hints of leather. While not particularly soft nor fruit-forward, the fruits were sharp across the center of the mouth. After sitting while we sampled wine #2 of this evening, the return to this wine was initially smelled almost like a shot of pomegranate vodka. After some serious swirling, it settled down and was PerhapS better integrated than at any prior point over the evening. Once again, this shows that you're much more likely to go wrong with not decanting a PS than you are with decanting it.

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  9/16/2007 - Loweeel wrote: 86 Points

  Poured into decanter to aerate. Ate with garlicy, salty steak and caesar salad with goat cheese. Oak, blueberries, and plum on the nose, but flavors were smooshed together on the palette. A lot of unpleasant bite before decanting, and just a whiff of alcoholic heat left on the nose aftewards. Not a great Petite Sirah, but not bad... though there are much better ones for this price. I have another bottle but probably won't buy again.

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  7/17/2007 - SoCal wrote: 90 Points

  Nose of plum and what I think to be blueberries.
  On the palate your are struck with an enjoyable mix of flavors.
  Plum is joined by black berries, black currant, and black pepper.
  The finish is very nice, to me it is a mix of earth and spicy oak that combine linger in your mouth.
  The balance is not perfect but never the less, this is a well make and powerful wine.
  I enjoyed this wine and I am glad I have another bottle.

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  4/16/2007 - jrobison wrote: 90 Points

  Delicious! Great body. Fruity nose and mid palate and I love the tobacco finish.

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  5/27/2006 - drcbarroso wrote: 88 Points

  Poured into a decanter and drank from Riedel Vinum Extreme Syrah glasses. Big, powerful nose of oak and blueberries. Plum and currant follow. Palate contains a lot of plum and blueberry. Long finish. Not sure how much longer this one will go based on what I felt very low acidity, but the tannins and fruit are there.

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