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Petite Sirah

Petite Sirah Wine Details
Price: $52.00 per bottle

Description: Our robust, lively, peppery Petite has tremendous body and heady fruit nuances. Briar patch fruit, currants and blueberries are evident on the generous nose and body of this wine. A long, lingering finish exhibits hints of new leather and a suggestive earthiness

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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