'99 Fife Redhead Petite Sirah

[Innkeeper]

Petite Sirah is a lot like Italian Barbera; the more you pay for it, the bigger and harder it gets. A few years ago, when we were still arguing PS vs syrah/shiraz (it is now a mute point), there was a lot of accessible PS around. Now things seem to evolved, at least on the Left Coast, to PS being big and hard, and syrah being accessible. Used to drink, just two years ago, Arciero Petite Sirah by the case; now they don't make it anymore. There were others; just go to the Seach function and type in Petite Sirah and my handle at the bottom. You will quickly see my recent adventure with PS, one of my old favorites. Incidentally, I love the syrahs from the Left Coast, but consider them, I believe correctly, to be completely different wines.