Pearce, Arizona-based LDV presents two wines for us — each 100% petite sirah bottlings from the 2015 classic. (Sure, these are present releases.) What does a scorching local weather do with a troublesome grape like petite sirah? Let’s discover out.
2015 LDV Vineyard Petite Sirah – Fairly extracted from the beginning, you may be forgiven for assuming this was some form of dessert wine, dense with raisin and dried plum notes earlier than shifting into a mixture of milk chocolate and baking spice, heavy with nutmeg. Candy to a fault from begin to end, I discovered a few of the underlying flavors worthwhile, however the general wine a lot too dense and sugary to complete a glass. C / $40
2015 LDV Vineyard Petite Sirah Signature – Additionally very extracted and dense, however this bottling — aged solely 33 months as a substitute of 35 — has extra to differentiate and suggest it, together with a punch of licorice that tempers a few of the heavy, weighty black fruit within the combine. Heavier notes of (darker) chocolate and a clearer vanilla word add sweetness but in addition mute a few of the underlying spice. General, it’s nonetheless a particularly wealthy, heady wine — however one with higher stability throughout. B / $48
2015 LDV Vineyard Petite Sirah Signature
$48
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