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Buyer’s Guide to Vintages November 8th Release
John Szabo’s Vintages Buyer’s Guide November 8: Wines for Every Festive Moment & Careful where you Put Your Shovel: the Best of Campania Stories 2025 By John Szabo MS, with notes from David Lawrason, Michael Godel, Megha Jandhyala and Sara d’Amato A Flurry of Highlights Greeting us this year with unusually early snow, November does […] More
Campania Stories 2025 Part Two: Buyer’s Guide Rosso e Rosato
By John Szabo, MS The 14th edition of Campania Stories, the annual preview tasting of new vintages from all regions in Campania, Italy, unfolded this year in Ercolano (Herculaneum) on the western slopes of Vesuvius, just outside of Napoli. The Bay of Naples and Vesuvius from the Island of Procida ©John Szabo See the Part […] More
Campania Stories 2025: Part One Buyer’s Guide White Wines
By John Szabo, MS The 14th edition of Campania Stories, the annual preview tasting of new vintages from all regions in Campania, Italy, unfolded this year in Ercolano (Herculaneum) on the western slopes of Vesuvius, just outside of Napoli. View from Ischia ©John Szabo I spent a week this past May tasting and touring in […] More
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Its small berries, and consequently high skin-to-juice ratio, allow Petite Sirah to produce wines with high tannin levels, surprisingly high acidity, and thus the ability to age. Characteristically, these wines have dense blackberry fruit character, mixed with black pepper notes. The grape’s similarity to parent Syrah became confusing for early planters in California. Starting in the 1880s, some of the original Durif vines were confused for a clone of Syrah and subsequently named Petite Sirah. The variety is also found in Mexico, Argentina and Brasil, although the best-known and most successful examples come from California.
