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| Drinking window: Drink between 2021 and 2026 (based on 4 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.5 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 4 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 5/10/2021: Two years ago I said that my last bottle of this wine would sit for a long time. Fourteen months into a pandemic feels like an eternity! It’s still a bit of a beast, but a cuddly beast. It walks up, gives you a head butt, then snarls. I’m OK with that, as I like a wine with guts. The aromatics are very pretty, with deep red fruit and floral notes. There’s nice juiciness on entry. Then the tannins kick in. I don’t have anymore, but for those who do, have no fear in laying this down for a long sleep. It has the depth, and it has the attitude to go the distance. (933 views) | | | Tasted by mreinhard74@gmail.com on 6/11/2019 & rated 90 points: Miles to go. Deep ruby with an overwhelming tannic spine supported by ample acidity. Pine tar, bramble and dark plum fruit. May still be too young. (836 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 3/27/2019: Two years since release, and nobody on CT has tried this wine? Well that won’t do.
It’s really deep purple. It’s Machine Head deep purple. Hope I don’t get any on my white shirt. Grapey, piney, showing touches of fresh chopped rosemary and warm underbrush, it is like hiking a dusty trail on a hot day. Then the tannins hit, like stubbing your toe on a rock. It hurts a bit, you land on your hands and knees, and wince. You gather yourself for a minute, then the brightness and fruit hold out a hand and picks you up.
There’s one more bottle, and it may sit a long time. This wine has teeth, but it also has flesh. (1184 views) |
| Dirty and Rowdy Producer website | Tumblr / Bon Appetit Video on Dirty and RowdyPetite 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 North CoastThe North Coast American Viticultural Area (AVA) in California, covering more than three million acres, includes Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake counties, and portions of Marin and Solano counties. (see The Wine Institute for more information) |
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