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The nose reveals a mélange of bramble fruit, red raspberry, black plum and cigar box spice. Medium-plus to...
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Our Petite Sirah is crimson in color with purple hues. Full bodied and rich, this wine boasts fruit-forward aromas...
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The 2021 Petite Sirah Tower Road is a beauty, with an up-front, lush, yet concentrated, nicely balanced style....
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They now own 100% of the grapes used for the El Rapolao and the 2021 La Vizcaína El Rapolao, from the youngest vines...
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The grapes from the 2021 La Vizcaína La Poulosa were the first to be picked, and they lowered the alcohol and...
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Sleek and silky, with a dark mix of black currant, blackberry paste and damson plum fruit wrapping around dense,...
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A new wine in this range, the 2017 Petite Sirah is a total knockout. Rich, ample and explosive, with terrific...
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Aromas and flavors of chocolate, caramel, vanilla, and rich blue fruit.
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A fruity nose of cherries, blackberries, violets, orange zest, spices and dried herbs. Medium-bodied with firm, round...
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Our Estate Bottled Petite Sirah has everything you would expect from this intensely flavored grape. Seductive, heady...
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Anyone who has ever seen photographs of the steep slopes of Ribeira Sacra will wonder how it is possible to produce a...
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Our Petite Sirah is full-bodied and rich purple in color. A delicious wine from front to back, leading with aromas...
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Complex and powerful; this wine will amaze and delight you. Heady aromas of mulberries, blackverries and dark plum....
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Macerated and fermented for 10 days in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperatures; aged sur lie for 6 months...
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The 2020 A Merced was produced with grapes from north-facing vineyards in Ponferrada on slate and quartz soils. It...
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The 2021 A Merced is surprisingly a little higher in alcohol than the 2020 I tasted next to it, despite the much...
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Sourced from several parcels wityh vines that are at least 50 years old, the blend is 90% Mencia and 10% “other”...
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Mencia from 25 year-old vines of Somers Vineyard in Lodi. All organically farmed and hand harvested fruit. 100% whole...
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The 2021 Petite Sirah is laced with inky blue/purplish fruit, hard candy, mint, sage and white flowers. Whole...
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A sharp, fresh nose features astringent fruit, new pencils, clean earth and a refined florality that more than holds...
Grenache Mencia Petite Sirah
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.
Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.
By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.
There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.