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Bright purple-red color. Complex, typical bouquet of small berries red fruits, leather and spices (vanilla, pepper,...
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With an abundance of fruit aromas, the wine is produced from 100% Petite Syrah grapes from the vineyards of the...
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• 100% Palomino.
• From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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Aromas of cocoa and mocha, with flavors of boysenberry, blackberry and blueberry.
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This wine is rich, concentrated with aromas of blackberry, cumin, dried herbs and florals. The palate offers black...
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Le Russeghine is the first-known single-vineyard Pigato from Liguria, which Riccardo Bruna first produced in 1972....
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“Majè,” in the Ligurian dialect, refers to the stone terraces in the area.
Sourced from young vines (less than...
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Only a 30-minute drive southeast of Napa, Suisun Valley (which became an AVA in 1982) is still largely undiscovered....
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92 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Naoussa, i.e., the Estate Xinomavro with just Domaine Karydas on...
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Our Petite Sirah hails from Stone Tree Vineyard in the heart of the Wahluke Slope AVA and exemplifies the luscious...
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Fleur de California's Petite Sirah displays intense aromas of blueberries, peppercorn and nutmeg. Dark in color, once...
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The 2021 Langhe Freisa Kye is redolent of black cherry, herbs, licorice and spice. The Vajra children are picking...
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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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Colour: Deep ruby-red.
Nose: Varietal, spicy.
Taste: Dry, characteristic, good body with a lot of tannins.
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Our Petite Sirah is crimson in color with purple hues. Full bodied and rich, this wine boasts fruit-forward aromas...
Other Italian Reds Sherry Petite Sirah Pigato Xinomavro Wine
Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.
Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.
Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.
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.
Xinomavro is the predominant grape varietal of Macedonia, although it is also grown in many parts of Greece where the climatic conditions are suitable for this particular fruit. The names translates as 'acid black', which gives some clue as to the nature of this varietal. The grapes are renowned for their high tannin content, which is a result of the thick and blue-black skins found on the fruit. This particular characteristic results in a superb aging potential in wines made from the Xinomavro varietal, as time spent in barrels softens these strong, astringent tannins and allows the full range of their flavors to come through in the wine. Most commonly, Xinomavro grapes are associated with aromas of red gooseberry, spices, olives and dried fruit, such as dried tomato.