Denier-Handal Petite Sirah (3)

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

I’m a full grown man, ma, so knock it off already! I don’t want to be part of this Denier-Handal Petite Sirah 3-Pack family! I’m my own man now; I’m a full-grown Sirah! I handle my own business. I’ve got a brilliant deep purple color and aromas of plums and blackberries! There’s nothing petite about that!

Could a petite guy put up flavors of raspberry, black currant, and apricot like this? I don’t think so! I’m a REAL Sirah now, and I don’t need my mom mother-henning me to death and telling me what to do all the time!

Now give me $ 20 so I can go to the movies.

• Harvest date: September 29, 2009
• Single Vineyard Designate: 100 % Denier Handal Vineyard, Alexander Valley
• In the Cellar:   Fermentation in open top tanks with manual punchdown 2 – 4 times a day
• Length of fermentations:   2 day cold soak followed by 8 day fermentation.
• Oak Regimen:   Aged in 2 year old French oak barrels for 18 months.
• Cases: 94
• Bottled Date: May 11, 2011
• Alcohol: 14.8%
• pH: 3.32
• Residual Sugar: Less than 0.1%
• Varietals: 100% Petite Sirah
• Alexander Valley Terroir: Warm Region III
• Soils of medium clay; grown on the valley floor along the Russian River in the Alexander Valley, Sonoma County

Woot