Extraordinary deep color, with memories of Welchs and full-bodied flavors of blueberry, chocolate, plums and black pepper. Earthy hints of tobacco.
All fruit is hand sorted to remove underdeveloped or imperfect berries along with anything else besides grapes.
Specifications
Vintage: 2015
Varietal: Petite Sirah, Estate Grown and Bottled
Vineyard: Frog’s Tooth Vineyards – Calaveras County CA
Cooperage: 75% American Oak / 25% Neutral Oak, 14 months, racked each month
Alcohol: 14.6%
Silver, 2018 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Since 1999, Frog’s Tooth Vineyards and Winery has been growing, crafting, pouring, and sharing our hand crafted small batch wines from the Sierra Foothills. What we don’t grow on our beautiful 10 acre vineyard in Copperopolis CA, we source from other local growers who share our passion.
From our inviting tasting room and patio, a short walk from Main Street in Murphys, we have been pouring our wines since 2007. Our winemaker Will SavoieHoule has brought a new youthful passion to crafting delicious wines. Each and every varietal is painstakingly hand sorted to ensure only the best fruit makes it into our award winning wines.
Will’s passion for bringing out the best that our fruit has to offer is contagious. We encourage you to come by our tasting room and enjoy a glass on our patio or join us for one of our club member parties at our Vineyard.
Every sip of our wines is a true taste of the Sierra Foothills!
Available States
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: Tax & Shipping not included in savings calculations)
2015 Frog’s Tooth Petite Sirah - $60 = 23.06%
First-timer here. I’ve been a VMP for awhile and Kickstarter backer, but just threw my name in for Lab Rat a little while ago. Imagine my shock they actually sent me one!
I received a bottle of the 2015 Frog’s Tooth Petite Sirah and had to wait for a cold to disappear to uncork it. On the nose I got hints of leather, plum, black cherry, and blackberry. It’s very dark and opaque in the glass.
My first sip, I was immediately aware of the tannins and dry mouthfeel; which was expected. I got very similar notes as was on the nose. Leather, cherry, plum and blackberry with a slight undertone of a bitter dark chocolate or cacao. I also got an unexpected (but pleasant) bite on the finish with a very mild taste of mediterranean olives. We poured two glasses, one with an aerator, the other without and didn’t notice a significant difference other than the nose seemed more “open” in the straight pour, but only slightly.
My partner is not a big fan of bold, dry reds so I ended up finishing most of the bottle myself over the course of the night. I can drink these while relaxing, but was really wishing I had a nice steak dinner to pair it with, or lamb or venison would go even better. My last couple glasses rounded out a little with a fuller mouth feel and slightly less bite, but the flavor profile remained the same throughout-nice cherry and leather with hints of the others.
I would drink this again, and think it would be very well served by sitting in the cellar for a couple years to mellow a little bit but was definitely drinkable right away.
@DickL@Mark_L i have an office in WI i can ship to. Id be up for splitting a 3-way case, but it may be awhile until i get up there next to get it and then get it to you both. IL wise, i live in nw suburbs and work in the Deerfield area, with an occassional visit to the loop. If youre planning to age this 20 years before drinking that may not be an issue, though. Lol.
@DickL@illini_john I don’t think I’d be in for a split at the current time. As an aside, we are only down at our MO home for 3-4 nights/month while we get our IL home ready to market (hopefully very soon), but we will be down on May 22 to get ready for the entire family (4 kids, 3 spouses, 5 grandkids) to be there over the Memorial Day weekend (which would make receiving this shipment there a possibility).
@illini_john Sorry, I didn’t check my email in time to see your message while the wine was still available. If you did order a case, I’d be happy to take as much of it as you wanted to get rid of. I live near Northbrook, so we should be able to find some place to meet. But if you didn’t buy any, no problem-- my cellar runneth over as it is.
This sounds delicious Central NY Mates…
I grew up in Calaveras County, and the Frog thing refers
to Mark Twain’s story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County”, in fact, our county fair was called
“The Frog Jump”, and yes, there was a frog jumping
contest.
First Casemates Rat bottle and tough duty for sure.
Frog’s Tooth Winery 2015 Petite Sirah
I have not had many Petite Sirah’s as most of my experience has been with PS as a blend component. The couple I have tried were not too pleasing to my palate, and I can’t even remember what they were (drank at family gatherings/parties) There were some medicinal-like notes that were not peasing to me that put me off but (spoiler alert) things may be changing. Interesting label and cork; Bordeaux bottle
Upon opening, initial scents are light and seem a bit muted. Tar and black plum. After a few swirls, cocoa powder and dusty tobacco and leather; all pleasing. Color is deep, deep purple - really black with only the slightest edges where the color lightens to deep garnet and you can see through it.
Sipping shows sweet dark berries and plum, chocolate and some black pepper. Low acid, very smooth and deep on the palate. Tannins and smoke on the finish which is lasting.
Day 2
Not much has changed. Bottle was corked and put in a Styro shipper in the trunk durning a few hundred miles drive. Maybe a bit more plum on the nose than last night. Less tannin evident tonight. I need to scare up some dark chocolate to see how that works.
I do know that I had to brush my teeth a bit longer last night as this wine is teeth staining. Based on how much I enjoyed this wine and the deal, I will be buying.
@mrn1@chipgreen@boatman72 and any other NEOhio mates, I’m grabbing a case. Happy to split. I think that this will last a while but it also did not taste too young for immediate consumption.
@pjmartin When you said “this wine is teeth staining” it made some long unused memory come back… wait, didn’t we have a Woot wine called that? Yes, it turns out, there was a 2009 Toothstejn Cab Franc.
Lab Rat Here.
I was delighted to receive a bottle of this just as I was leaving work. I was double delighted to see a frog on the label. We have a planter/fountain on our back porch and tree frogs have moved in, so the wife and I have a thing about frogs.
The color is a very deep purple. I said purple, my wife said plum.
The aroma is very fragrant with rich earth, chocolate and floral notes.
The earthiness comes through in the taste with the plum and chocolate as well as maybe some leather and my wife said black berries. The tannins (IMHO) seemed more prevalent at first taste. But seemed to mellow out the longer the bottle was opened.
I decided to make a dinner with varied taste, so I mixed a grilled pork chop with some left over vegetables from a beef braise and a side of lasagna. We thought the wine went very well with all three dishes. The following day we paired it with some bratwurst and Bush’s Grillin Beans and it paired nicely with that.
My taste seems to be sensitive to wines that are tart or acidic and I didn’t have any problems with that.
Overall the wine has a nice mouth feel and lasting finish.
As for legs, well they were slow to develop.
At this price point, I’m in for a case.
@chipgreen Something must be going around. Friends have it, too. Daughter went to the DR today for it!! At first I thought it was the barometric pressure playing with my head. KEEP DRINKING WINE, Chip. I wasn’t, then I contracted a sinus infection and developed bronchitis within two days!! Now with the antibiotics, I can’t drink alcohol. All this rainy weather isn’t helping!!
Would like to try it in, say 15 years from now. Pets always needs lots and lots of time. I haven’t even opened any of the Rasmussen, Foppiano or other top Pets from the rpm Tours a decade ago and more. Storage is, as ever, the problem with Pets. No CA varietal needs more time than Pets when made as a varietal (or mostly varietal) wine. At its best, mature California Petite Sirah is sublime and unique, but drunk too young, it’s often over-tannic and simply too raw boned. At this point, anything other than Cabernet is for (more or less) current-ish (i.e. next 5 years or so) consumption.
@rpm
I purchased the 1996-1998 Foppiano Petite Sirah vertical on the 2012 tour. I drank the 1996 last year and it was completely shut down. jmdavidson drank through his whole vertical shortly thereafter and all 3 vintages were shut down. I am still holding onto the 1997, hoping it will come back to life. Thoughts?
My experience is that those wines need 25-30 years. 97 was the best of those years, and should give you some real pleasure in 3-4 years. Remember to let it breathe, even in age, and decant.
This is one of those buy a case let it sit for another year, drink one, then forget about it until 2025 at the earliest. Just gotta get it through the PS dumb period. As it is I’m exercising self control with the 09 Denier-Handel PS. I did buy like 2 cases over all the wine woot offerings…
@csolivares1 Sorry to keep this Haiku thing going, but I couldn’t resist. This was from the online generator, though I had to try a few times. Remote Michigan
A little, willing wine split
into the cellar
@Winedavid49 Please bring this back. I had hoped to cellar some as I know age will improve it. But it is just too good and the case is almost (sadly) gone.
Tasting Notes
Extraordinary deep color, with memories of Welchs and full-bodied flavors of blueberry, chocolate, plums and black pepper. Earthy hints of tobacco.
All fruit is hand sorted to remove underdeveloped or imperfect berries along with anything else besides grapes.
Specifications
Price Comparison
$535.07/case (including shipping) at Frog’s Tooth Vineyards and Winery
About The Winery
Winery: Frog’s Tooth Vineyards and Winery
Since 1999, Frog’s Tooth Vineyards and Winery has been growing, crafting, pouring, and sharing our hand crafted small batch wines from the Sierra Foothills. What we don’t grow on our beautiful 10 acre vineyard in Copperopolis CA, we source from other local growers who share our passion.
From our inviting tasting room and patio, a short walk from Main Street in Murphys, we have been pouring our wines since 2007. Our winemaker Will SavoieHoule has brought a new youthful passion to crafting delicious wines. Each and every varietal is painstakingly hand sorted to ensure only the best fruit makes it into our award winning wines.
Will’s passion for bringing out the best that our fruit has to offer is contagious. We encourage you to come by our tasting room and enjoy a glass on our patio or join us for one of our club member parties at our Vineyard.
Every sip of our wines is a true taste of the Sierra Foothills!
Available States
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, May 23rd - Tuesday, May 28th
Frog’s Tooth Petite Sirah
3 bottles for $64.99 $21.66/bottle + $2.67/bottle shipping
Case of 12 for $199.99 $16.67/bottle + $1/bottle shipping
2015 Frog’s Tooth Petite Sirah
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: Tax & Shipping not included in savings calculations)
2015 Frog’s Tooth Petite Sirah - $60 = 23.06%
Love Petite Syrah!!! Any Rats?
First-timer here. I’ve been a VMP for awhile and Kickstarter backer, but just threw my name in for Lab Rat a little while ago. Imagine my shock they actually sent me one!
I received a bottle of the 2015 Frog’s Tooth Petite Sirah and had to wait for a cold to disappear to uncork it. On the nose I got hints of leather, plum, black cherry, and blackberry. It’s very dark and opaque in the glass.
My first sip, I was immediately aware of the tannins and dry mouthfeel; which was expected. I got very similar notes as was on the nose. Leather, cherry, plum and blackberry with a slight undertone of a bitter dark chocolate or cacao. I also got an unexpected (but pleasant) bite on the finish with a very mild taste of mediterranean olives. We poured two glasses, one with an aerator, the other without and didn’t notice a significant difference other than the nose seemed more “open” in the straight pour, but only slightly.
My partner is not a big fan of bold, dry reds so I ended up finishing most of the bottle myself over the course of the night. I can drink these while relaxing, but was really wishing I had a nice steak dinner to pair it with, or lamb or venison would go even better. My last couple glasses rounded out a little with a fuller mouth feel and slightly less bite, but the flavor profile remained the same throughout-nice cherry and leather with hints of the others.
I would drink this again, and think it would be very well served by sitting in the cellar for a couple years to mellow a little bit but was definitely drinkable right away.
I’m down for a few bottles if any SoCal peeps wanna jump in on a case!
@funnywontons
@markdaspark normally shows interest is pets.
For science, I’d try one or two.
@funnywontons @rjquillin
But, but … that means sharing my PETS!
@funnywontons @rjquillin
So 3 for funny and 2 for rjq?
/giphy welcome-frigid-tongue
@MarkDaSpark @rjquillin
Good with me! Who’s ordering?
@funnywontons @rjquillin
Um, already ordered. Thus the giphy .
@MarkDaSpark @rjquillin
Derp. I should read more carefully before posting can’t wait!
@funnywontons @MarkDaSpark works for me as well.
And, of course you did!
@funnywontons @rjquillin
That went without saying! The correct question was if I would share it!
I’d be in for a case, except no IL.
@DickL That seems to be the case on an increasing percentage of the offers. Hoping I can change my address to MO soon.
@DickL @Mark_L i have an office in WI i can ship to. Id be up for splitting a 3-way case, but it may be awhile until i get up there next to get it and then get it to you both. IL wise, i live in nw suburbs and work in the Deerfield area, with an occassional visit to the loop. If youre planning to age this 20 years before drinking that may not be an issue, though. Lol.
@DickL @illini_john I don’t think I’d be in for a split at the current time. As an aside, we are only down at our MO home for 3-4 nights/month while we get our IL home ready to market (hopefully very soon), but we will be down on May 22 to get ready for the entire family (4 kids, 3 spouses, 5 grandkids) to be there over the Memorial Day weekend (which would make receiving this shipment there a possibility).
@illini_john Sorry, I didn’t check my email in time to see your message while the wine was still available. If you did order a case, I’d be happy to take as much of it as you wanted to get rid of. I live near Northbrook, so we should be able to find some place to meet. But if you didn’t buy any, no problem-- my cellar runneth over as it is.
Houstonites, I’d be interested in a 3-4 way split if any y’all down.
This sounds delicious Central NY Mates…
I grew up in Calaveras County, and the Frog thing refers
to Mark Twain’s story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County”, in fact, our county fair was called
“The Frog Jump”, and yes, there was a frog jumping
contest.
@FritzCat Haiku:
Calaveras famous
Jumping and Petite Sirah
Wine contains no frog
First Casemates Rat bottle and tough duty for sure.
Frog’s Tooth Winery 2015 Petite Sirah
I have not had many Petite Sirah’s as most of my experience has been with PS as a blend component. The couple I have tried were not too pleasing to my palate, and I can’t even remember what they were (drank at family gatherings/parties) There were some medicinal-like notes that were not peasing to me that put me off but (spoiler alert) things may be changing. Interesting label and cork; Bordeaux bottle
Upon opening, initial scents are light and seem a bit muted. Tar and black plum. After a few swirls, cocoa powder and dusty tobacco and leather; all pleasing. Color is deep, deep purple - really black with only the slightest edges where the color lightens to deep garnet and you can see through it.
Sipping shows sweet dark berries and plum, chocolate and some black pepper. Low acid, very smooth and deep on the palate. Tannins and smoke on the finish which is lasting.
Day 2
Not much has changed. Bottle was corked and put in a Styro shipper in the trunk durning a few hundred miles drive. Maybe a bit more plum on the nose than last night. Less tannin evident tonight. I need to scare up some dark chocolate to see how that works.
I do know that I had to brush my teeth a bit longer last night as this wine is teeth staining. Based on how much I enjoyed this wine and the deal, I will be buying.
@pjmartin Nice Rat report!
@pjmartin
Well done! I am good for a couple bottles if you want to share.
@pjmartin Pete…nice review especially considering you are on the road!
If you need someone to take a couple so you can snag a case w/ lower cost I’m in.
@mrn1 @chipgreen @boatman72 and any other NEOhio mates, I’m grabbing a case. Happy to split. I think that this will last a while but it also did not taste too young for immediate consumption.
/giphy responsible-underwhelmed-asiago
@Boatman72 @chipgreen @pjmartin You can count me in. I’ll take 2-3 unless you need me to take 4 to evenly split the case.
@pjmartin When you said “this wine is teeth staining” it made some long unused memory come back… wait, didn’t we have a Woot wine called that? Yes, it turns out, there was a 2009 Toothstejn Cab Franc.
@pjmartin I’ll jump in and take 2 also!!
Lab Rat Here.
I was delighted to receive a bottle of this just as I was leaving work. I was double delighted to see a frog on the label. We have a planter/fountain on our back porch and tree frogs have moved in, so the wife and I have a thing about frogs.
The color is a very deep purple. I said purple, my wife said plum.
The aroma is very fragrant with rich earth, chocolate and floral notes.
The earthiness comes through in the taste with the plum and chocolate as well as maybe some leather and my wife said black berries. The tannins (IMHO) seemed more prevalent at first taste. But seemed to mellow out the longer the bottle was opened.
I decided to make a dinner with varied taste, so I mixed a grilled pork chop with some left over vegetables from a beef braise and a side of lasagna. We thought the wine went very well with all three dishes. The following day we paired it with some bratwurst and Bush’s Grillin Beans and it paired nicely with that.
My taste seems to be sensitive to wines that are tart or acidic and I didn’t have any problems with that.
Overall the wine has a nice mouth feel and lasting finish.
As for legs, well they were slow to develop.
At this price point, I’m in for a case.
Three nice Rat reports,
Three nice Rat reports,
See how they drank,
See how they drank!
They all drank with
The farmer’s wife.
She cut off their wine
With a SIWBM.
Did you ever see
Such a thing in your life,
As three nice Rat reports?
@Boatman72 New challenge to community: make a Haiku
I tried an online Poem Generator. This is what I got:
Festive casemate
A little, liquid wine tastes
in spite of the rat
@pmarin
Ode to a deal
How will I like thee?
Lab rats report quality
I’m in for a case
I blame the post on the meds I’m taking for a bad cold!
@Boatman72
Ugh, my wife has been down for the count as well. Somehow I was spared, at least so far! Feel better…
@chipgreen Something must be going around. Friends have it, too. Daughter went to the DR today for it!! At first I thought it was the barometric pressure playing with my head. KEEP DRINKING WINE, Chip. I wasn’t, then I contracted a sinus infection and developed bronchitis within two days!! Now with the antibiotics, I can’t drink alcohol. All this rainy weather isn’t helping!!
any nyc splitting?
@canonizer
I’d be in for 3
@albish7 I’m willing to go 3 bottles or 4; uncomfortable taking more than 1/3 of a case.
@canonizer @hammi99, @hscottk, @albish7, @wine69, @mstew, @winesmith, @infrom @rkalantari
Any interest?
@albish7 @canonizer @hammi99 @hscottk @mstew @rkalantari @wine69 @winesmith Sorry, I’m out, but thanks for asking.
@albish7 @canonizer @hammi99 @InFrom @mstew @rkalantari @wine69 Sorry I’m back on a SIWBM.
@albish7 @canonizer @hscottk @InFrom @mstew @rkalantari @wine69 I’m on a WIWBM unfortunately, will have to pass since I’m Singapore for the year
Any Southern MI splitsville?
@ttboy23 @jrbw3 @ksandrae I ordered and there’s 4 left if anyone else would like to try it.
@jrbw3 @ttboy23 if you have some leftover I’ll take some. If not, no biggie. Thanks
In for 3, holy-mini-mouth
I cut myself off but then frogs…I love frogs…and wine…so froggy wine
Would like to try it in, say 15 years from now. Pets always needs lots and lots of time. I haven’t even opened any of the Rasmussen, Foppiano or other top Pets from the rpm Tours a decade ago and more. Storage is, as ever, the problem with Pets. No CA varietal needs more time than Pets when made as a varietal (or mostly varietal) wine. At its best, mature California Petite Sirah is sublime and unique, but drunk too young, it’s often over-tannic and simply too raw boned. At this point, anything other than Cabernet is for (more or less) current-ish (i.e. next 5 years or so) consumption.
@rpm
I purchased the 1996-1998 Foppiano Petite Sirah vertical on the 2012 tour. I drank the 1996 last year and it was completely shut down. jmdavidson drank through his whole vertical shortly thereafter and all 3 vintages were shut down. I am still holding onto the 1997, hoping it will come back to life. Thoughts?
My experience is that those wines need 25-30 years. 97 was the best of those years, and should give you some real pleasure in 3-4 years. Remember to let it breathe, even in age, and decant.
@rpm
Will do, thanks!
If any NOVA buddies want a case and need help, I’ll take 1-3. I’d love to Stock Up on some good PS, but, you know, money and space.
/giphy little-awesome-pollution
VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!
Anyone in Sonoma county up for a split?
I put in an order and willing to split with any Socal wino’s. Great lab rat reviews drew me in.
Tampa area split??
This is one of those buy a case let it sit for another year, drink one, then forget about it until 2025 at the earliest. Just gotta get it through the PS dumb period. As it is I’m exercising self control with the 09 Denier-Handel PS. I did buy like 2 cases over all the wine woot offerings…
@WebDev511 Haiku:
One wine now to taste
The case must wait a decade
Do I have patience?
Anyone in the PNW want to case split? Three way split would be ideal. I’m in Olympia and can purchase with free shipping. Lemme know…
Too many good wines lately and too little storage. Work has given me a drinking problem, I’m not home enough to drink the wine down!
/giphy adventurous-amethyst-gazelle
any Michiganders willing to split?
@csolivares1 Sorry to keep this Haiku thing going, but I couldn’t resist. This was from the online generator, though I had to try a few times.
Remote Michigan
A little, willing wine split
into the cellar
/giphy calculating-cylindrical-magpie
@manny651 I’d be in for a Tampa split.
Out of town till May 23.
@brucenie Or in Haiku form (see earlier post about poems…)
In for Tampa split?
Out of town till May two three.
But still want my wine!
[not me, I’m not in Tampa, but I was going with the Haiku theme and this came to me]
CaseMates sells me wine
my house is full of boxes
Why do they not stop?
Fourteen months it sat
Barrels made of Oak, within
Now it’s time to taste
@Winedavid49 Please bring this back. I had hoped to cellar some as I know age will improve it. But it is just too good and the case is almost (sadly) gone.