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Victor Hugo Petite Sirah Paso Robles 2006

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Victor Hugo Petite Sirah Paso Robles (2006)

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Petite Sirah is one of a group of grapes that took to a new home - in this case California - after moving from the relative obscurity enjoyed at its birthplace - France in this case - where it is called Duriff. While never particularly elegant nor subtle, Petite Sirah can produce large-scaled, intense wines with bright flavors of blue and plummy fruits, rich with earthy tannins.

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Snooth User: Gregory Dal Piaz
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Nice nose, spicy oak clove and ginger notes with a hint of black pepper, black cherry, lime leaf, anise seed, touch brambly. Sweetly fruited entry then puts on a fair amount of structure with lots of ripe tannins and balancing acidity. This is a touch spicy and has an accentuating note of vanilla over big grapey fruit with a touch of leather and earth on top. Nice finish is just a touch rustic and tannic but with good length and appealingly earthy tones and a touch of blueberry fruit and perhaps a whisper of chocolate on the powerful, raw finish 90pts


November 2009

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Snooth User: zacksinkler
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Vague notes of pepper, otherwise not a whole lot of complexity. I wouldn't give it as a gift, but I'd serve it at a gallery opening.


May 2009

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Smells like berries (I think). Tastes... great!


May 2009

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