2023 Petite Sirah
2023 Petite Sirah
Lanza-Musto Vinyards
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This wine is full bodied with deep, dark, & rich bold fruit flavors like plum, blackberry, with hints of black tea and cigar leaf.
Suggested Food Pairings:
Grilled steaks, prime rib, beef stews, short ribs, venison dishes, baked cod with crabmeat stuffing, hard cheeses like Parmigiana Reggiano.
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Winemaker's Notes
Winemaker's Notes
Growing Season
The growing season was long with warm summer days, tempered by cool nights from the cool ocean breeze that flows through the valley, perfect conditions for the long ripening needed for Petite Sirah. The fruit was beautifully ripe with a perfect balance of sugars, phenolics, and acidity, with intense concentration of flavors.
The 2023 vintage was extraordinary with a rare long growing season and this wine captures the essence of that season in each bottle. A dry year with sunny summer temperatures and an unusually cool autumn allowed many varieties ripen evenly with extended hang time.
The grapes were grown in Lanza-Musto vineyard. After two and a half weeks of fermentation, the wine was aged and matured in a French oak casks for 11 months.
Harvest
The fruit was hand harvested in late-October and loaded into 36 pound lugs to avoid damage, and shipped in refrigerated trucks to preserve the freshness of the fruit.
Winemaking
Original Brix: 25.2
pH: 3.80
Alcohol by Vol. 14.7%
Aged 11 months new French oak casks.
Bottled December, 2024
Molinas Cork Grade 0 (finest)
Tasting Notes
An opulent wine with soft tannins and a long length finish, this superb vintage will age beautifully over the next 10 years.
Concentrated and full bodied with flavors of red fruits with pronounced notes of black fruits and blueberry.
Highest Grade Sustainable Cork
Highest Grade Sustainable Cork
Cork Grade 0 (rated 0-10, 0 being best)
Molinas Cork was started over 100 years ago by Pietro Molinas on the Italian island of Sardinia. Besides its beautiful beaches, Sardinia is known for its large, government protected Cork tree forests.
Today, the 4th generation of the Molinas family sustainably harvests cork from these protected trees. Different than most cork available in the market, the bark is allowed to mature an additional year. This leads to a less porous, higher quality cork, and has less impact on the forest. Throughout the entire process from tree to finished cork, quality control is strictly monitored and the trees are respected and protected for future harvests.
We only use Molinas Cork grade 0 corks for our Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve wines which allows our top premium wines to age from 5-20 years.
Watch: Harvesting Cork in Sardinia
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