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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.6 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 7/31/2012 & rated 87 points: 10th Annual Petite Sirah Symposium & Tasting (Martinelli Event Center & Concannon Vineyard, Livermore, California): Very dark purple red violet color; ripe berry, blueberry nose; ripe berry, blueberry palate; medium finish (14.2% alcohol, pH 3.83; 98% Petite Sirah, 2% Syrah) (2569 views) | | | Tasted by Martin Redmond on 5/29/2012 & rated 90 points: Deep garnet color with liquer-like plum, blackberry, and clove aromas. On the palate, it's medium-bodied supple, with soft tannins, and black cherry, plum and slight raspberry flavors. Medium long finish. 14.2% alcohol. Retail - $35
www.enofylzwineblog.com (3667 views) | | | Tasted by Martin Redmond on 5/3/2012 & rated 90 points: Pacific Point Wine Tasting Club - Petite Sirah Night (Union City, CA): Deep garnet color with liquer-like plum, blackberry, and clove aromas. On the palate, it's medium-bodied supple, with soft tannins, and black cherry, plum and slight raspberry flavors. Medium long finish. 14.2% alcohol. Retail - $35 (4305 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 3/25/2012 & rated 90 points: 2012 Rhone Rangers Grand Tasting: 151 Wines Rated (Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California): Very dark ruby color; intense, ripe plum, ripe currant, raisin nose; tasty, raisin, ripe black fruit, wild berry palate; medium-plus finish (20 mos. in oak; showed much better than at last month's PS I Love You event) (2378 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 2/17/2012 & rated 86 points: 2012 PS I Love You Dark & Delicious Petite Sirah Event (Rock Wall Winery, Alameda, California): Very dark purple red violet color; lifted, baked raspberry, black cherry, violet nose; baked raspberry, black cherry, violet palate; medium-plus finish (1869 views) |
| 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
Central Coast AVA WikipediaPaso Robles Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance
Set apart by unique climate and geography, Paso Robles Wine Country provides prime growing conditions for more than 40 varietals planted over 26,000 acres of vineyards. More than 300 wineries craft this fruit into premium wines, gaining recognition around the world. The fruit, the wines and the distinct environment have quickly made Paso Robles California's third largest and fastest growing wine region. |
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