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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.
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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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