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Petite Sirah

Petite Sirah Wine Details
Price: $18.00 per bottle

Description: Hand harvested, destemmed and crushed into one ton fermentors, then inoculated 24 hours later with prisse de mousse yeast. The must was punched down 4 times daily for 12 days then sealed for 10 days of additional maceration prior to pressing. After completion of malolactic fermentation , this wine was aged in american oak barrels for 16 months prior to bottling.

Varietal Definition
Petite Sirah:
Petite Sirah is the same as the French variety known as Durif, a cross of Peloursin, with the true Syrah. A French nurseryman, Dr. François Durif, propagated the grape trying for resistance to powdery mildew and named it after himself, in the 1870s. Petite Sirah has long been an important blending grape, prized primarily for its deep color and fairly intense tannin. It is the variety most often chosen to blend into Zinfandel for added color, complexity, body, and to tone down the tendency of Zins toward "jammy" fruit.


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