People's Wine Revolution Petite Sirah

Tasting notes & discussion 105

$20/bottle from PWR Wines
Petite Sirah, Petite Sirah / Your wine is a good wine for good buys
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About People’s Wine Revolution:
Husband and wife team Matt Reid and Marcy Webb conceived The People’s Wine Revolution to bring great wines to all at reasonable prices.

Matt completed the UC-Davis Viticulture & Enology M.S. program in 2003. He has been the winemaker at Seavey Vineyard and Quixote Winery, and the Custom Crush Winemaker at Failla Wines. He is currently winemaker for Benessere Vineyards and Consulting Winemaker for Burgess Cellars.

Marcy’s background is public health (epidemiology), but her quick, scientific mind has led to positions at The Napa Wine Company, Franciscan and Chalk Hill. She is the assistant winemaker for Ballentine Vineyards.

“Our goal is to make wines every bit as good as those we made for our day jobs, but at a fraction of the price. PWR is now our full-time pursuit.”

PWR to the People

TASTING NOTES:
Petite Sirah thrives in Suisun Valley, and will probably emerge as its signature varietal. Everything we love about Petite Sirah is abundant in the Oberti Vineyard grapes — rich, densely concentrated flavors, intense color, and tannins that are formidable but not forbidding. This 2013 Bea’s Knees Petite Sirah has aromas of blackberry, blueberry, and dark chocolate-covered cherries, along with hints of baking spices. On the palate it is rich, dense, and long, with firm but not overbearing tannins.

TANGENTIALLY RELATED FACT to help you make conversation over this wine:
Petite Sirah originated from the 1860s cross-pollination of Peloursin and Syrah in the gardens of French botanist François Durif, by whose name the grape is known almost everywhere else in the world. (Just not here or in Israel.)

DRINK IT FROM (conventional option):
A compact, high-waisted red wine glass with a relatively modest opening.

OR (really-going-with-the-theme option):
From the bottle, thinking of Calvin Harris’s 2012 club banger “Drinking from the Bottle”, the video for which features actor Brad Dourif. Probably no relation to the grape.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Blue Velvet (1986)

Blue Velvet (1986)
Mississippi Burning (1988)

Mississippi Burning (1988)
The Child's Play franchise (1988, '90, '91, '98, 2004, '13, '17)

The Child's Play franchise (1988, '90, '91, '98, 2004, '13, '17)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2002, '03)

The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2002, '03)
Deadwood (2004–2006)

Deadwood (2004–2006)
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