MCV Paso Robles Petite Sirah 2022Two amazing moments with Petite Sirah; but first, a reflection on Petite Sirah: Petite Sirah is a California winemakers sweetheart of a red wine grape. Meaning this is the grape that almost all of them love growing and working with. Why? Because Petite has a very small berry (hence the name) and because of this, when made into wine, it has a high skin to juice ratio. The ratio in turn means that Petite can handle Californias sunshine no matter how

The government will only let you label 68 of them as Brunello

alluvial breadth of Sant’Angelo in Colle—the wine opens with lifted aromatics: tart cherry

The unusually long growing season virtually guarantees consistently ripe fruit with good acidities and great complexity

carob and cocoa flavors

In many vintages the Hillsides leans towards a darker expression of Syrah

woodsy note that nods to the Fanucchi site itself

the one we’ll focus on today

it has a clean

Hampson and Maguire continue to make this magnificent Chardonnay in the longstanding

This wine is so Puligny-like – meaning smoke

a chateau on top of the chai and well

most producers we speak to have a high regard for Ladoix