A big-boned, sinewy, muscular affair true to the Nguni cow it is named after
This Petite Sirah has a nose of grated dark chocolate and graphite, the sinewy palate expresses warm, leafy fruit, cocoa bean and finely grained textural tannins.
Fruit from trellised blocks on the Agter-Paarl's soils of sandy loams threaded with granite seams. Petite Sirah is also known as Durif, from Syrah pollen crossed with Peloursin in France in the 1880s, and named with immeasurable modesty by the inventor himself, François Durif. The âpetiteâ refers to the tight bunches of small, dark berries whose high skin-to-juice ratio naturally gives a dark wine of structure.
In Paarl's warm, dry climate we achieve colour and therefore structure with ease so we choose 100% carbonic maceration and whole berry, no stems, to express the sense of place rather than just the cultivar.
You know what to have with this!... it deserves a wonderfully juicy, premium and rare steak!
2016 Vintage: Decanter World Wine Awards 2017 - Bronze
2016 Vintage: IWC 2017 - Bronze
2016 Vintage: Sommelier World Wine Awards 2017 - Silver
