2018 VIVE LE BLUES Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County Petite Sirah
WINE NOTES
NAME:
Vive Le Blues
VARIETAL:
Petite Sirah
APPELLATION:
Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County
VINTAGE:
2018
When reaching for a bottle of a big red, don’t we usually go towards a Cabernet, Merlot or Zinfandel? However, over the past few years we’ve been shifting our reach to aged, Sonoma County Petite Sirahs, which can be super complex, full-bodied and everything a fine Cabernet can offer… a win win all around.
(“Peh-teet sear-ah”) was first found in France in the mid-1800’s. It’s loved for its extraordinary deep color and full-bodied flavors of blueberry, chocolate, plum and black pepper. Despite its popularity, Petite Sirah is an exceptionally rare grape with less than 10,000 planted acres worldwide, growing mainly in California. So, finding this wine for our membership was no small task.
The color is a super engaging, deep ruby with just a tinge of violet around the edges showing off its California heritage. The nose is big blue fruit like blueberry, and slight violet with a little earth as it opens. All of this awesomeness carries forward to the taste, with again … monster blue fruit, firm tannins, tea leaf and a bit of plum. This is a masculine wine that will age for a very long time, but drinks perfectly now.
Our big red wine lovers will adore this wine... for as long as it lasts in our cellar. 😎
Cheers - Eric 🍷
ARTWORK NOTES
This wine is full-bodied, deep and rich … with hints of blue fruit. It made me yearn for the blues. And so I sat at my kitchen table and painted the quintessential chord progression of the blues, I IV V. Listen to Buddy Guy, Keb’ Mo’, Robert Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Bonnie Raitt, or any great blues artist. New or old, the blues stands firm on the shoulders of this chord progression. It’s classic, just like this wine.
Mindi 🎶
MUSIC
If we’re talking about a full bodied big red wine with blue fruit notes and some swagger… and we are… we’re listening to the blues. The chord progression I IV V became the building blocks of blues ever since Charley Patton and Robert Johnson made it famous back in the early 1900s. If you’re a blues fan, you’re a fan of this progression, whether you know what it is or not. So… listen, sip, and feel the blues!
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