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A 168mph Fastball … and an Unheard of Rise to Cult Royalty On April 1, 1985, Sports Illustrated published a cover story about a walk-on at the New York Mets training camp, a pitcher who had already been deemed unhittable. Headlined “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch,” author George Plimpton reported that Hayden Siddhartha “Sidd”…
Once you start winding your way up steep Spring Mountain Road from St. Helena, it doesn’t take long until you find yourself in the land of some of the most outstanding wines produced in Napa Valley: Pride, Keenan, Immortal Estate, Barnett, Stony Hill, and Smith-Madrone are all located up here. But at these heights—and beyond…
Tannin That Cellars Longer Than Most California Cabernets Wine Access clients know Matt Cline as the guardian of some of America’s greatest and most historic vineyards. When translated to bottle, these sites yield dramatic offerings, loaded with class and lush, dark-berry fruit. Mazzoni Vineyard is perhaps the crown jewel in Cline’s historic portfolio, planted in…
“This is no ordinary Petite Sirah” At the northern end of Napa Valley, winemakers in Calistoga turn out big, bold, red wines from the warmest section of the Valley where ripeness reigns supreme. Some of the finest bottlings aren’t even made from Cabernet Sauvignon. For the better part of the last decade, Mike Officer of…
A Full-Throttle Challenge to Napa’s Boldest Reds With its explosion of black fruits, intense aromatics, and sturdy tannins, we’d offer a mouth-filling powerhouse like the 2016 Two Angels Petite Sirah every week if we could—but rarities like this inky, California jewel don’t come around often. We’re looking for wines like Two Angels, which deliver the…
Caymus. Au Bon Climat. Hitching Post. David Bruce. Benziger Family. When wineries like that are lining up for your fruit, you know you’ve got something special. The Sinton Family planted one of the first vineyards in Paso Robles, and from that sustainably and organically farmed vineyard comes a Petite Sirah of STUNNING old-vine concentration. Black-fruited…
Estate-grown. Single-vineyard. “Top-Flight Winemaker.” Each of these can single-handedly add digits to a wine’s price. But Le Vigne’s 2017 Petite Sirah is a different story. It’s everything we love about Petite Sirah—powerful, expressive, complex, it’s the type of value we’re always looking for, but rarely find. In fact, this generous Petite Sirah is impossible to…
In California wine circles we sometimes entertain ourselves with questions such as, what would you argue is the most American wine? Or, which wine do you think most successfully placed California wine on the world stage? Or, what is the most respected winery in the United States? Inevitably, one winery—Ridge—is an answer, if not the…
Collectors of big, powerful Napa reds look to the region’s mountain appellations for wines of a distinct focus, minerality, and cellar potential. The one less appealing commonality of these “mountain wines” is their (often prohibitive) cost. That’s why we locked in the entire allocation of the show-stopping 2017 The Vice Single Vineyard Petite Sirah from…
To get the best out of Petite Sirah, a notoriously temperamental grape, Wine Access member-favorite winemaker Matt Cline has to be on call round the clock, vintage after vintage. Cultivating the Petite Sirah is time-consuming and costly. The Mazzoni Vineyard is just nine precious acres, but everything is done by hand, with the utmost attention…
Stags’ Leap Winery is as synonymous with Petite Sirah as Caymus is with Cabernet—and nobody does it better. From their own block of 95-year old hillside vines—plus fruit from the top growers of inky old-vine Petite Sirah they’ve tapped for almost 50 years—they craft the quintessential example of what Parker once called “California’s most underrated…
Shannon Ridge 13 Rams Red Wine is exceptional—a 100% estate-grown, certified-organic, inky-black blockbuster that shows exactly why Napa Valley icons, like grower Andy Beckstoffer, are flocking to Lake County. In the 1970s, wineries like Ridge, Freemark Abbey, and Concannon pushed the deep, dark, tooth-staining Petite Sirah to new heights of popularity. In 1976, 14,000 acres…
Stay in business for 128 years—like Foppiano Vineyards, one of the Sonoma Valley’s oldest continually-operating wineries has—and you learn a few things. Like how to evade snooping Prohibition officers—or navigate decades of fractious family rule by red-blooded Italian-Americans. But there’s one thing in particular that Foppiano’s stewards have learned better than basically anyone else in…
One of Napa Valley’s blue-chip consulting winemakers—a Napa legend with multiple 100-pointers in his trophy case—was absolutely dumbstruck when he saw Clay Shannon’s phenomenal Lake County terroir. And it was enough to make him get on board with Shannon’s project. To understand the excitement, look no further than the Shannon Ridge 13 Rams. It’s exceptional—a…
100% whole cluster Carbonic Maceration for 13 days in stainless steel. Pressed into a combination of concrete and stainless steel tanks for 9 days. When fermentation was finished the wines were transferred to 8 year old French oak barrels. Natural yeast fermentation. 13% ABV
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