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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.74 $17.49
COLOR: The color is ruby red with violet highlights. NOSE: The bouquet is fruit-forward with notes of currants,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $17.49
12 bottles: $15.83
COLOR: The color is ruby red with violet highlights. NOSE: The bouquet is fruit-forward with notes of currants,...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.89
12 bottles: $19.49
COLOR: Ruby red with violet highlights. NOSE: Intense bouquet of ripe fruits with notes of currants, blackberries and...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.20
6 bottles: $24.70
The elegant, complex aromas greet you with garrigue, notes of red fruits, cardamom, oolong tea, tobacco, and black...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.20
6 bottles: $24.70
The elegant, complex aromas greet you with garrigue, notes of red fruits, cardamom, oolong tea, tobacco, and black...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.60
12 bottles: $25.65
Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.57
12 bottles: $12.32
Dolcetto d'Alba is a wine that is characterized by its fragrance and freshness: it has a ruby-red colour with hues of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93 $18.66
12 bottles: $17.01
A fresh and bright dolcetto with bright cherry and lemon-peel aromas and flavors. Medium body. Crisp finish. Drink now.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.94
12 bottles: $28.36
• Practicing Organic. • 100% Dolcetto. • Sourced from a single site in Eola-Amity Hills AVA. • Destemmed,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.90 $20.88
6 bottles: $17.50
Ruby red in colour. On the nose, fragrant, fruity bouquet with hints of flowers. This is a very versatile piedmontese...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.33 $36.80
A wine of weight and substance, the 2019 Petite Syrah Lytton Estate is fabulous. Best of all, readers won't have to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $44.78 $46.80
12 bottles: $44.46
The two grape varieties crossed to create Petite Sirah are Pelousin and Syrah, and Robert Biale’s Royal Punishers...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
12 bottles: $16.60
This classic Dolcetto has an intense ruby color with violet reflections. The aroma is strong and fruity with notes of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.94
12 bottles: $23.46
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.70
12 bottles: $11.47
A bright young dolcetto with clean, plummy fruit and a characteristic fruit-tea note. Medium body with fresh acidity...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.94
12 bottles: $13.66
• 100% Dolcetto. • From 1.5ha of vines. • Grown in calcareous soils. • Maceration with the skins for 4-5 days...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.87 $15.41
Spellbound Petite Sirah has an intense color and generous bouquet of rich blackberries and blueberries, vanilla bean...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.99
Spellbound Petite Sirah has an intense color and generous bouquet of rich blackberries and blueberries, vanilla bean...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $31.81 $34.20
Lovely aromas of toasted herbs, baked plums, nutmeg and chicory root. Full-bodied with tight tannins. Juicy and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $26.94
Hand-harvested from the certified biodynamic estate vineyard in the Vista Flores region of the Uco Valley. Notes of...
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Dolcetto Mencia Petit Verdot Petite Sirah

In Italian, Dolcetto means 'little sweet one' – a slightly misleading name, as the black grapes of this varietal have relatively little natural sugar and almost almost produce dry wines. However, the Dolcetto grapes are remarkably popular with those looking for a full, rounded and highly flavorful wine, and are grown extensively in their native Italy, and in many other countries around the world. Dolcetto varietal grapes tend to have quite a high level of tannin, due to their thick, black skins, and low acidity, resulting in interesting wines with a large feel in the mouth, despite being relatively light in body. They are most commonly associated with big, complex flavors such as liquorice and prunes, and are regularly described as having a finish similar to the flavor of bitter almonds.

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.