GRAZIANO
Petite Sirah, Mendocino
- Wine Notes
- Mendocino County is the largest producer of Petite Sirah in
the north coast of California. Our Petite Sirah comes from a
combination of old vine vineyards and new high tech
vineyards scattered throughout the benchlands and hillsides
of Mendocino County.
The wine was aged in a combination of French, American
and Eastern European oak barrels (20% new) for 36 months
that soften the tannins and added complexity to wine. This
wine offers deep aromas and delicious flavors of ripe
blackberries, violets, chocolate, toasty vanilla, tar and spice.
Untypical of many of today’s Petite Sirahs, this wine is
round, smooth and displays rich tannins that leads to long,
lingering finish
- Food Recommendations
- Roasted meats such as lamb and beef or hearty venison stew bring out the true flavors of this wine.
- Alcohol
- 14.5%
- Total Acidity
- .71 g/100ml
- PH
- 3.44
- Residual Sugar
- .6% (dry)
- Case Production
- 530 cases
FACT SHEET
- Varietal Composition
- 100% Petite Sirah
- Harvest
- Hand-harvested September 27th – October 11th, 2009
- Length/Type of Fermentation
- Crushed into open top fermenters with 4 days of cold soak, pumped over and
punched down twice a day for 16 days.
Length/Type of Aging:
Barrel aged a total of 36 months in
combination of French, American and
Eastern European oak (20% new).
- Date Wine Was Bottled
- February 20th, 2013