1996 Signorello Estate Petite Sirah

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 93 points

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  2/17/2009 - Loweeel wrote:

  13.9% ABV, no decant, 30 min aeration in bottle, no signs of seepage. Black cherry, blindsiding late-hitting velvety tannins, like drinking a glove, great food wine. Hints of brett, some cedar on the nose. Definitely has bottle bouquet at this point. A lithe ballet dancer of a PS. Not a bruiser (probably because of the insanely low-for-PS abv). Impenetrable black cherry color in the glass, unfiltered wine but surprisingly clear when held up to the light. It's REALLY growing on me.

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  1/28/2005 - Blair Curtis wrote: 93 Points

  Dinner With Delyap and the Gang (Vancouver, B.C.): Ray Signorello brought us a special treat - a bottle of his rare, old vines P.S. He told us only 40 cases of the wines were made per year and 1996 was his last year with this fruit. From a vineyard owned by the Gamble family with vines over 110 years old (planted in the 1870s). This wine was mammoth. Inky and black. Densely tannic and not yet ready for primtime, the wine foreshadowed its excellence with a complete, mouthfilling presence, including a thick, rich midpalate. A shame more people will not taste this. If you have any, leave it alone for 10 years at least.

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