2023 Petite Sirah
2023 Petite Sirah is by far the ripest and boldest bottling in our years producing
this wine! This 100% Petite Sirah wine is magnificent and proves that Paso Robles makes
the finest Petite’s Sirah in the world! This is a full-bodied, lavish wine that has a lot to
offer and it will evolve with elegance as it ages. Notes of back berries, black plum, dried
black cherry, fresh and dried lavender and violets. The mouthfeel is loaded with oaky
taste, offering chocolate with subtle hints of spice meat that add gravity, complexity.
This is a no nonsense, well concentrated wine that is super determined with ripe
blueberry flavors and fortified with the classic overlaying tannins. This wine will be great
tasting for a long time; reaching its best sometime after 2030.
Both lots were fermented and aged separately creating diversity and unique taste
to the final blend. Our setae “Lago De Los Patos,” Petite Sirah was fermented in 8-500L
Open top Puncheon barrels as well as a 2,234-gallon stainless tank. BDX yeast was used
for the barrels and PERSY yeast was used for the tank fermentation. Nothing can replace
or match the effects of the barrel fermentation! The wood helps to trap dark color
pigment and increase the wine’s BIG mouthfeel and delicious textures. Rafael’s Petite
Sirah form “Sol Para Todos” block, was 100% tank fermented and right away smelled of
chocolate, plums and candied apples during fermentation. The wine aged 22 months in
barrels before final blending, filtering and bottling took place in mid-August 2025. We
bottled a grand total of just 980 cases and this wine is set to be released at the end of
2026. This is by far our single biggest Petite Sirah bottling; I can’t wait to see how this
wine improves with time and cellaring.
| Download Wine Notes |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Varietal | 100% Peite Sirah |
| Varietal Composition | 100% Petite Sirah |
| Appellation | Paso Robles |
| Vineyard | Frankel Family Estate |
| Acid | 0.65 g/100 ml |
| PH | 3.60 |
| Residual Sugar | 0.08 g/100 ml |
| Alcohol | 15.80% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Bottling Date | 08/14/2025 |
| Cases Produced | 980 |
Just amazing, this wine has the potential to be the best Petite Sirah we have ever
made. 2023 ended up giving us the best growing conditions possible for Petite Sirah. We
waited long and hard for harvest, it took an extra month to achieve ripeness compared
to 2022. Again, it was worth the wait as I could not be more pleased with this vintage! In
fact, we were even hit with a frost on October 30th and decided to harvest the following
day. The frost SPIKED up the sugars in the grapes, dehydrating the berries slightly thus
creating higher than usually alcohol and a big rich mouthfeel. This 100% Petite Sirah is a
combination of two vineyards; our own estate 1.5-acre block and Rafael Jimenez
vineyard located on the west side of San Miguel. Our farming practices are all about
hand manicuring, from pruning, shoot thinning, cluster dropping and hand sorting
during harvest...these grapes are the “cream of the crop” from both vineyards. 2023 was
noted for historical heavy rains and cold spring and summer weather. All of which were
beneficial for the grape production.
