You’ve been ask­ing for it and here it is, a wine full of BIG and bal­anced fla­vor! Petite Sir­ah is typ­i­cal­ly a tan­nic, huge wine, but long hot days in Paso Rob­les with cool­er evenings cre­ates con­cen­trat­ed fla­vors and high acid­i­ty to bal­ance the fin­ished wine. We like to press from the skins while the wine is still sweet to extract max­i­mum fla­vor and col­or while avoid­ing exces­sive tan­nins which can throw off the bal­ance. The wine then fer­ments dry before mov­ing it to small Amer­i­can oak barrels.