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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.8 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by gjv115 on 12/28/2016 & rated 94 points: Phenomenal. Still big. Was more similar to a northern Rhone than a PS. Great wine. Lot of life left. (931 views) | | | Tasted by Hodby on 6/17/2015 & rated 87 points: Medium dark red color, deeply saturated. Spicy oak in the nose, With cow's milk, scorched cherry, black pepper. Low tannin and medium acidity. A little sweet in the mouth but satisfying. Bottle #2 of two. (1220 views) | | | Tasted by jinks on 4/28/2012 & rated 93 points: Epic KW Blind Tasting of 16 of the best wines in the world: 5/16. Impressive ranking for this "ringer" wine which has obviously aged well. (2745 views) | | | Tasted by smcg on 6/7/2009 & rated 89 points: Pleasant, still has some fruit and complexity left. Not sure this is going to improve though, based on my tasting earlier vintages over the last few months (1992 views) | | | Tasted by smcg on 8/10/2008 & rated 90 points: Hard to believe this wine is 20 years old-- still inky dark, tannic and very full bodied. Lots of pepper, leather, slightly smoky. Probably worth giving some more time to see what develops. (1988 views) | | | Tasted by jivey on 3/3/2008 & rated 87 points: Bluberry,cedar,pepper, nice color and tannins. A little bell pepper and "thin" on the finish. (1411 views) | | | Tasted by Spencer on 3/3/2004 & rated 95 points: First Tuesday Ridge Petite Sirah Vertical at Chuck's House. No notes. Very similar to the '74 York Creek. Amazing. (19/20) (1834 views) | | | Tasted by Vino Me on 7/28/2003 & rated 91 points: I did not like this as much as the 1997 Ridge Dynamite PS. Notes of Cassis and chocolate with a smooth finish. 90-91 points. (1277 views) |
| Ridge Producer website | Wikipedia
Ridge Vineyards is a California winery specializing in premium Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, and Chardonnay wines. Ridge produces wine at two winery locations in northern California. The original winery facilities are located at an elevation of 2,300 feet (700 m) on Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA near Cupertino, California. The other Ridge winery facilities are at Lytton Springs in the Dry Creek Valley AVA of Sonoma County.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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Spring Mountain DistrictWikipedia article on the Spring Mountain Distric AVA. |
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