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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.3 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 32 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by robmatic on 12/15/2022 & rated 92 points: Mmmm, yeah, really like this. Unusual and non-traditional, but pushes the right buttons. (347 views) | | | Tasted by danscellar on 10/1/2021 & rated 93 points: A really nice port from Vince, Enjoy! (689 views) | | | Tasted by danscellar on 8/17/2021 & rated 93 points: Awesome port, dark and rich!! Enjoy (697 views) | | | Tasted by danscellar on 1/1/2021 & rated 93 points: A classic Vince port; Big, Intense, Fruit forward and Really Good! Enjoy!! (730 views) | | | Tasted by deltah2oskier on 3/4/2017: Carmel and not as thick as 05 and 06 (1815 views) | | | Tasted by awineo on 8/1/2011 & rated 95 points: Yummy red fruit with just the right amount of sweetness. A great bottle for being so young. (3705 views) | | | Tasted by danscellar on 10/20/2007 & rated 91 points: ripe juicy and fun, (4138 views) | | | Tasted by rumorsofsurf on 5/21/2007 & rated 93 points: Wonderful bottle of port that had everyone smiling. (4328 views) | | | Tasted by motoring on 12/30/2006 & rated 95 points: wow (4176 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 11/19/2006 & rated 94 points: Inky purple with a complex, giving nose of smoke, sweet dark fruits, creme-de-cassis, minerals and vanilla. Palate has concentrated ripe blackberry fruit that is velvety and viscous riding over fine tannins. Great length, buit needs time to integrate and develop. Excellent and unique. Arroyo is an underrated master of petite sirah. (2195 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Vincent Arroyo 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 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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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