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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.4 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 24 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by fabten on 1/16/2024 & rated 91 points: Dark and nicely concentrated. Black pepper, dark fruit. Ready to drink but would be better to hold. (628 views) | | | Tasted by DrELW on 10/15/2023 & rated 92 points: This is a deep purple opaque wine. The wine diffuses aromas of plum and dark berries. The flavor is fruity with highly evident dark chocolate. The body is full and rich. The tannins are firm and dusty, and that's after a one-hour decant. The finish is dry and lingering. There is some bitterness that often comes with this variety. This wine possesses 15% alcohol which is expected with the ripe Caymus style. It went exceptionally well with a meaty pizza and a football game! This is a well made varietal wine. (902 views) | | | Tasted by Srabkin90 on 7/25/2023 & rated 92 points: Another solid wine from the Wagner portfolio. I have enjoyed the 2018 vintage several times and this was quite similar.
Strong notes of stewed blackberry, blueberry jam, and baking spice. Vanilla, white pepper and a hint of oak as this opened up. This is a very fruit forward offering, though less offensive than could be expected based on the smell.
Med+ bodied, silky smooth, and sweet but well balanced.
This is a solid wine that delivers young with a prominent fruit forward punch. Very enjoyable. (1103 views) | | | Tasted by cos65 on 4/17/2023 & rated 89 points: Deep ruby black, almost opaque
Creamy berry oaky delicious if not quite serious.
An easy party wine. (1258 views) | | | Tasted by maxima on 3/8/2023 & rated 89 points: Bu en succ.
Texture satiné et tout en souplesse.
Gros fruit mais pas trop maquillé.
Sur les petits fruits rouge, les herbes,
un peu de chocolat et une pointe de menthol.
Les tannins sont fins et la finale
est assez longue et on a une petite
impression de sucre.
Délicieux même si on est dans un style appuyé,
voir moderne. (1907 views) | | | Tasted by SNELLO on 12/25/2022 & rated 96 points: Carafé 1h30
Nez très fruité
Goût fruité, très équilibré
Tanin léger et peu d’astringence
Ds mon top 3 (1446 views) | | | Tasted by Cdecar3 on 11/25/2022 & rated 95 points: Buy again. Very nice. I enjoyed it!!! -Caro and Alexander (1428 views) | | | Tasted by Double-A on 10/18/2022 & rated 85 points: Inky purple colour. Crushed blackberry, blueberry, milk chocolate, and clay nose. Fruity, saturated palate with sweet-centered, grapey flavours; ripe upfront but tart towards the finish.
3/5 (1500 views) | | | Tasted by SPfromTX on 8/13/2022 & rated 90 points: Big dark purple color. Vanilla, oak, chocolate on nose. Big, bold and jammy, dark fruit forward. Medium long finish. (1652 views) | | | Tasted by Lilb on 7/16/2022: nice acidity. raspberry notes. slight acid on finish (1626 views) | | | Tasted by Risky on 3/7/2022 & rated 90 points: heavy body with blackberry nose and taste. Smooth and great lingering taste. Wonderful with beef. (1896 views) | | | Tasted by Stoic Warrior on 2/26/2022 & rated 90 points: Bought on special offer at Three60 Wines. Almost purple. Good legs. It opened up quite quickly (1+ hrs). Blackberry, pepper and tobacco on the nose, pepper, prunes, oak and more berries on the palate. Bold. Starts mildly tannic but smooths out quickly. Dry. Persistent finish. I do like the broad palate and spicy complexity of petite sirah.
Second day, still quite fine. Very little degradation. A bit jammy now and a hint of dark chocolate comng through. Certainly recommendable at this price. (1563 views) | | | Tasted by Ahall4488 on 2/12/2022: Very tasty. Red currant flavors (1424 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 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)Suisun Valley Suisun Valley Grape Growers Association
Suisun Valley lies within the southern end of two ranges of the Coast Range, the Vaca Mountains to the east and the Mt. George Range to the west. Lengthwise, it stretches south to the marshlands of Suisun Bay and north it rolls up into Wooden Valley at the Napa County line.
Despite its inland location, Suisun Valley enjoys a coastal area climate characterized by cool moist winds from the ocean and the San Francisco Bay that blow almost continuously from May through early fall, while its proximity to Suisun Bay helps mitigate spring frosts. |
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