2018 Theopolis Vineyards Estate Grown Petite Sirah
2018 Theopolis Vineyards Estate Grown Petite Sirah
Bright fruit, firm tannins, and robust spice envelop this Estate Grown Petite Sirah. The glass opens with fragrant notes of black cherry, violets, and woodsy spices. Big notes of cola, vanilla, and blackberry jam burst on a palate framed by velvety tannins. This vintage will stand up now and age beautifully for decades.
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The latest release from Theodora Lee (AKA Theopatra) And Theopolis vineyards is her 2018 Estate Grown Petite Sirah, which is a thrill ride of dense and spicy flavors and comes from her amazing terraced vineyard in the Yorkville highlands in Mendocino County. This might be the best site and most distinct for Petite Sirah in California, and I have loved this wine since I first tried it, with this 2018 being one of the most exciting to date, its inky purple opaque color and its racy peppery undercurrent making it irresistible. As I have found over the last five vintages, this site give Petite Sirah a northern Rhone like profile and this 2018, from a long cool growing season, really accentuates that character with the mentioned peppery nature or peppercorn note as well as the lively energy found here. It additionally adds hints of lilacs, anise and creme de cassis come out with air and the power tannins smooth out when this beautiful Petite Sirah opens up, this is very serious stuff.
- Kerry Winslow
