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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.4 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 39 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by kabert on 11/12/2022 & rated 94 points: Superb! Bought at auction, so fingers crossed. Cork was pretty loose in the bottle neck. But wine seemed unaffected. Dark purple. Loads of dark fruit; just a hint of tannins. Has many years of good drinking ahead. (426 views) | | | Tasted by kenv on 2/27/2020: [Double decanted at 5pm.] (1442 views) | | | Tasted by Border Boss on 2/22/2020: This wine needs a couple of hours of air, and then it's outstanding. Great fruit and balanced tannins and acid. This wine will last another 20 years. (1073 views) | | | Tasted by Border Boss on 5/19/2018 & rated 92 points: Decanted two hours before service. Paired with lamb chops.
This is a huge wine that's not even close to maturity. Huge, mouth drying tannins. Blackberries, licorice, and vanilla on the palate. Totally opaque purple color. Lots of sediment. Drink now with a couple of hours of air, or keep over the next 20 years. (1506 views) | | | Tasted by BuffaloLou on 2/17/2018 & rated 96 points: On the pop 'n pour this was rough and tannic. 90 minutes later, the chamber maiden turned into Cinderella. This is a massive wine, but silky smooth with mouth drying tannins on the finish.
Color is ink black with a deep currant-purple rim.
A nose of blackberry, strawberry, blueberry, and a hint of vanilla and licorice.
The mouth drying, massive palette with licorice, flowers, and currants. It lasts for several minutes.
The acidity makes the mouth salvate, but the enormous mouthfeel balances it. Truly a magnificent wine that will last for many, many, more years. (1743 views) | | | Tasted by Mrbuzz on 12/3/2016 & rated 96 points: OMG! How can a wine be this monstrous...yet SO soft?!! Black as night, with a little raspberry on the rim......gobs of liqueured berry fruit with perfect sweetness to the dry.....mouthcoating glycerin, teeth staining...yet the tannins have melted away leaving an amazing softness like a tempurpedic mattress! Has great youthful acidity, crushed stones for firmness, and fantastic flavors of licorice, graphite powder, warm brownies, white pepper, lilac and white flower florals. Slight aged nuances of rich earth and wet tobacco leaves.....but thats grabbing. Awesome wine....might be eternal? (1776 views) | | | Tasted by kenv on 5/15/2016 & rated 96 points: [Decanted at 2pm. So much inky sediment that I could not see through the bottle even with a very bright light.] Massive nose of ripe blackberries, licorice, lavender, and chocolate. Incredibly rich and silky in the mouth with a wave of tannin on the finish. I will leave it in the open decanter in hopes that those tannins will soften. The fruit and finish are amazing. I think I'll be ordering the prime rib tonight!
[2 hours in the open decanter, then about 2 hours back in the bottle.] Really singing now. Lush, complex, brilliant winemaking. Just wow. Everyone loves it. Perfect with prime rib. (1776 views) | | | Tasted by btock on 5/14/2016 & rated 90 points: A heady style of petite. A hedonistic wine and should be enjoyed as such! Opened with a steak but a better match with a good block of dark chocolate for dessert. Deep purple coloring, black plum but some graphite in the background to make it interesting. Good now, throwing some sediment but can go longer. A fun wine. (1353 views) | | | Tasted by AlexHop on 6/27/2014 & rated 94 points: Beautiful bold wine. Drinking great right now. (1942 views) | | | Tasted by buckeye76 on 5/29/2014 & rated 94 points: DEEP RICH FRUIT IN THE NOSE WITH DRIED PLUMS, LAVENDER, AND MINT. DEEP RICH BERRY FRUIT IN THE FLAVOR WITH DRIED PLUMS, AMAZINGLY SOFT WITH GREAT LEGS, NICE COMPLEXITY, LONG VELVET FNSH (879 views) | | | Tasted by Loren Sonkin on 4/19/2012 & rated 94 points: A Tasting of Petite Sirahs (My Home): Mine and the groups WOTN. I assume this was a Bob Foley wine. Inky in color, shimmering bright. The nose is great, best on the table. Black raspberries, licorice, leather. On the palate, sweet fruit. Black raspberries and blueberries. Slight alcohol notes. Firm tannins. Just delicious. No hurry, but its great today. (3816 views) | | | Tasted by Filippo on 3/21/2012 & rated 95 points: This is a stunner. Silky, plump, great mouthfeel. And full throttle cherry, toasty oak, ripe black fruit, a hint of leather and tobacco. Pretty long finish too. (3097 views) | | | Tasted by Drankthewholebottle on 7/20/2011 flawed bottle: Got this one from one of K&L's cellar buyouts. I imagine the original owner bought it on an August morning in Napa and drove around with it in the trunk all day. No capsule, but sealed with a dollop of wax atop the cork. Showed signs of leakage that I should have noticed. Caveat emptor. (3040 views) | | | Tasted by OneLastSyrah on 12/9/2010: 14.8% ABV. Popped and poured. Opaque dark garnet in the glass - still somewhat inky. Heavy oak and vanilla blackberry nose. Full bodied with blackberry jam like flavors on the palate. Decidedly oaky and rather thick and reminiscent of pancake topping, but not in a confection-like way. This surpassed my expectations somewhat. I was prepared for a tannic oaky mess, but there's still decent fruit here. (3381 views) | | | Tasted by MicklethePickle on 11/14/2010 & rated 90 points: At home on Sunday watching Dallas dominate NY (so far). A massive petite-makes the grape's name a real misnomer. Absolutely black, black purple in color. Thick purple legs stain the glass purple tears. Powerful, even grapey, on the nose. Not much in the way of secondary smells early on at least. Surprisingly round in the mouth, yet sports plenty of ripe fruit that almost touches over-ripeness. Notes of chocolate lend complexity. Fairly lengthy finish. Not a wine for drinking on it's own, it really needs BBQ or a spiced-rubbed steak for a foil. 5-11-17-7: 90/100. (1067 views) | | | Tasted by rpenn77 on 7/25/2010 & rated 95 points: Blackberry notes, very rich and almost a creamy texture. A bit of raisin on the backend. Loved it. (2848 views) | | | Tasted by ssouth on 6/4/2010 & rated 93 points: Still big but really entering a drinking window of many (2492 views) | | | Tasted by dridge11 on 4/25/2010 & rated 95 points: Stunner, best bottle of the Pride PS I've had to date. (2553 views) | | | Tasted by btock on 3/19/2010 & rated 90 points: Huge! Big tannins, deep purple/magenta color. Smelled like a barrel sample, which I liked. Splash decanted 1/2 for consumption about 1-2 hours later. Left the other half in bottle to see the difference. Very full blackberry/boisenberry approach, though tannins tied that together. My wife commented that the wine was maybe a bit too extracted, which is rare for her since she's a Cali zin and syrah fan. Consistent with other notes, a long life ahead of this and I'll sit on my remaining bottles for a while. (2459 views) | | | Tasted by River Rat on 1/19/2010: A completely different experience from my last bottle. Not nearly as syrupy, with a bigger flavor explosion and more tannins. Drank over the course of 4 evenings and it evolved each day. Very enjoyable. (2747 views) | | | Tasted by OneLastSyrah on 1/10/2010 & rated 91 points: 14.8% ABV. Inky black magenta in the glass. On the nose this Pet was showing bright, somewhat lemony, blackberry and boysenberry fruit with some secondary tar. Coming back for more I noticed a touch of slightly nutty toasted seeds. Fairly classic Pet all around. Full bodied but with bright tangy red raspberry fruit keeping it fairly light on its feet. A little bit short and a little bit too lemony, but way better than I recall this tasting 4-5 years ago, when it was a monolithic ink bomb. (2611 views) | | | Tasted by hcampana on 12/28/2009 & rated 88 points: Several wines and ... a roasted pig in the tradition of Asterix & Obelix!: This wine sort of flew under the radar amidst so many wines. I was expecting a lot of tannic grip and concentration and was surprised to taste a rather subdued wine that was pleasurable but not memorable.
Este vino pasó medio inadvertido entre tantas botellas abiertas. Estaba esperando un vino atractivamente tánico y con gran concetración, pero me encontré un vino más bien recatado que, aunque disfrutable, no fue memorable. (3300 views) | | | Tasted by River Rat on 11/25/2009 & rated 94 points: Monster fruit? The understatement of the year. This is so jammy and thick I think I could pour it on my pancakes. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Massively extracted, almost port-like texture on the palate with an instance of mouth puckering tannins and medium/long smooth finish. Sediment coated the glass. This is my first Pride Petite. Are they all like this? My wife is laughing at my purple teeth. Wow, what an experience. (2870 views) | | | Tasted by markjanes on 11/8/2009: Boys nite with New World wines, uncommon varietals (Reno, NV): Extremely dark in color, a lot of vanilla and lots of slightly pruned/plummed dark fruits. On the palate very high acidity, fleshy midpalate, very, very firm, but crazy ripe tannin finish of moderate length. A "good" wine for its style and one of the better wines of the night. (3318 views) | | | Tasted by Baeyens Cellars on 9/26/2009 & rated 93 points: Massive dark fruit as expected from Pride's Petite Sirah. I really found the unfiltered like texture of the wine most appealing to me, especially on the finish. A very nicely made wine especially if you're in the mood for monster fruit. (2962 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Pride Mountain Vineyards Producer websitePetite 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 Isčre and Ardęche 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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