I'm a fan of Bogle Petite Sirah (California), I enjoy the earthy nose and
deep berry flavor. I've had several others, all seem to be from California
or Oregon. Are there any other regions that produce wine from this grape?

Paul V. Parker

Petite sirah is also known as Durif. Mostly a pedestrian workhorse
blending grape in France, but some decent ones (under the Durif name)
in Australia.
One of my favorite CA PS's is Lava Cap.

I think petite sirah aka duriff is after zin the best indigenous grape in
California. Many red jug wines have petite syrah or sirah in their uvaggio
or blend. Its blended into the better zinfandels at the upper end of the
scale. York Creek in Napa has been used by Ridge for about 35 years in
their zins or on their own. The grape does well in the Livermore area and
along the Pacific coast from Santa Cruz to Carmel. Properly made it lasts
a loooong time. I drank my last bottle of the 1975 Mt Veeder 5 years ago
and it was just opening up. Sometime in the mid 1980's I did an all, for a
tooth scrapping, ps tasting. Tasting of a bunch of tannic, high in alcohol
wines was not a pleasant experience, I should have waited at least 10 more
years to pop the corks. My most recent ps was made by a former client
Thomas Coyne who purchased the grapes. He cut back the alcohol and made a
wine that was good with roasted dishes. I think his supply dried up as the
vineyards were plowed over by a developer. Mr. Coyne was a cellar rat at
Rosenbloom before he founded his namesake winery.
"DaleW" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Petite sirah is also known as Durif. Mostly a pedestrian workhorse
> blending grape in France, but some decent ones (under the Durif name)
> in Australia.
> One of my favorite CA PS's is Lava Cap.
>

lots of info he

http://www.psiloveyou.org/

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:48:19 GMT, "PP" > wrote:

>I'm a fan of Bogle Petite Sirah (California), I enjoy the earthy nose and
>deep berry flavor. I've had several others, all seem to be from California
>or Oregon. Are there any other regions that produce wine from this grape?
>
>Paul V. Parker
>

"PP" > wrote in message news:n7jvf.26795$Uf7.8026@trnddc01...
> I'm a fan of Bogle Petite Sirah (California), I enjoy the earthy nose and
> deep berry flavor. I've had several others, all seem to be from
> California or Oregon. Are there any other regions that produce wine from
> this grape?

The Montes from Chile is outstanding.

PP wrote:

> I'm a fan of Bogle Petite Sirah (California), I enjoy the earthy nose and
> deep berry flavor. I've had several others, all seem to be from California
> or Oregon. Are there any other regions that produce wine from this grape?
>
> Paul V. Parker
>
>


It may be hard to get in the US [which is where I assume you are], but
the Rutherglen region of Victoria and other central / northern parts of
Victoria are producing some excellent durif / petit syrah.

I'm a big fan of it. Yum yum I say.

Most of the durif I mention is probably *way* too powerful for many in
here, but its sure worth the experience. It will most likely blow away
anything else you are drinking. That's the Warrabilla I'm talking about
[see the links below].

Having the surname "Parker" it may not be powerful enough.



Read this for example:
https://www.nicks.com.au/ProductDeta...roductId=12724


Nicks only has a few:
https://www.nicks.com.au/SearchResul...By=3&#pa ging

but there are other great examples.




I also think its taking off in some other regions of Australia. I would
say off-hand most likely in the stereotypical shiraz areas such as the
Barossa.


Mat.