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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.51 $18.34
Always reliable, the 2018 Gewürztraminer delivers again, boasting flamboyant scents of rose petals, lychee fruit and...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $73.94
A new wine in this range, the 2017 Petite Sirah is a total knockout. Rich, ample and explosive, with terrific...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.41 $15.17
12 bottles: $12.36
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.93 $16.66
Our Estate Bottled Petite Sirah has everything you would expect from this intensely flavored grape. Seductive, heady...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.91 $16.75
12 bottles: $11.53
Our Petite Sirah is full-bodied and rich purple in color. A delicious wine from front to back, leading with aromas...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.94
12 bottles: $22.48
Complex and powerful; this wine will amaze and delight you. Heady aromas of mulberries, blackverries and dark plum....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.90 $20.80
12 bottles: $19.50
The 2021 Petite Sirah is laced with inky blue/purplish fruit, hard candy, mint, sage and white flowers. Whole...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.56 $18.48
12 bottles: $11.53
Deep purple hue with flavors of rich, dark brambleberry fruit with hints of cocoa powder and espresso beans. Rich,...
White
750ml
Bottle: $22.94
12 bottles: $22.48
What's not to love o'love about lime, lavender and rose-scented bathwater aromas? The Gewürztraminer's lychee fruit...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $22.89
12 bottles: $22.43
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.85 $20.40
This has a youthful nose of yellow grapefruit zest and yellow roses. Medium-bodied, quite creamy palate, but...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.33 $36.80
A wine of weight and substance, the 2019 Petite Syrah Lytton Estate is fabulous. Best of all, readers won't have to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $44.84 $46.80
12 bottles: $44.46
The two grape varieties crossed to create Petite Sirah are Pelousin and Syrah, and Robert Biale’s Royal Punishers...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.87 $15.41
Spellbound Petite Sirah has an intense color and generous bouquet of rich blackberries and blueberries, vanilla bean...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.99
Spellbound Petite Sirah has an intense color and generous bouquet of rich blackberries and blueberries, vanilla bean...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.64 $39.60
12 bottles: $34.20
Lovely aromas of toasted herbs, baked plums, nutmeg and chicory root. Full-bodied with tight tannins. Juicy and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.94 $17.50
12 bottles: $16.63
Rich aromas of lavender and rose show that this HAS to beGewürztraminer! Mouthfilling, with round, and lengthy notes...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.57 $18.41
12 bottles: $13.17
The Crusher Petite Sirah is a deep, inky color with bold aromas of boysenberry, blackberry, and fig jam. The inviting...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $22.00
12 bottles: $21.56
The orange hue of this wine comes from the skin contact and maceration during fermentation; the same process that...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $31.94 $32.80
Aroma: A kaleidoscope of aromas: rose petals, spicy blossoms of lilies, ylang-ylang, gardenia; ripe exotic yellow...
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Gewurztraminer Ice Wine Petite Sirah

Gewurztraminer is renowned for being a particularly tricky grape varietal to grow and cultivate, but is one which plenty of wineries persevere with due to its unique properties and excellent flavors The vines themselves are highly robust, and can even be unruly when in the correct type of soil, but they cannot grow well in terroirs which contain chalk or other similar components. They are also extremely susceptible to a wide range of diseases and rot, and due to their early budding and fruiting, they cannot survive frost. However, despite these problems, in cooler climates and on the right terroir, the Gewurztraminer grape varietal produces wonderful results quite unlike any other vine. The pink grapes are packed full of elegant and sweet flavors, their relatively high sugar content offering a light sweetness alongside floral notes, perfumed and aromatic aromas, and a distinctive taste of lychees.

Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.

By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.

There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.