Petite Sirah / Durif
Petite Sirah is a variety with many fans among consumers.
Durif
[Nerin]
Also known as, Dure, Pinot de Romans, Pinot de l'Ermitage, Nerin, Bas Plant, Plant Fourchu, Sirane Fourchue, Petite Sirah.
DURIF
A minor red-wine grape from France once erroneously thought to be the parent variety of the Petite Sirah grape varietal extensively planted in California.
Durif, red wine grape that is considered by some a cross between Syrah and a variety called Peloursin, grown in the Rhône valley in the late 19th and up to the middle of the 20th century.
Durif
Synonyms
None in Australia. The variety is also known as Plant Durif, Plant Fourchu, Pinot de Romans and Pinot de l'Hermitage (although not related to Pinot) in France.
DURIF: (aka Duriff). Minor grape grown in France, California and Australia. A recent, (9/1997), DNA analysis report shows this variety likely to be a cross between Peloursin and Syrah.
DURIF: Has several synonym names including Duriff and Pinot de l'Ermitage. Well known variety grown in France, California and Australia. A recent DNA analysis report (Meredith C.P., et al., "Am. J. Enol. Vitic.
DURIF (aka Duriff):
Minor grape from France still reported to be the parent variety of the Petite Sirah grape varietal extensively planted in California, although DNA analysis disputes this.
EARLY BURGUNDY:
(See Abourion above).
Petite Sirah was believed to actually be Durif, a minor red grape variety first grown in southern France in the late 1800s. However, recent DNA research shows Petite Sirah and Syrah are related after all.
Is a chance seedling or selection recorded in the early 1880's consequently named Durif in honor of the finder. Other grapes known to be present in some Petite Syrah vineyards are the Mondeuse and Trousseau.
It is believed - although there are some doubts about this theory - Petite Sirah is the Durif grape, a crossing between Peloursin and Syrah grapes, invented in France in the 1880's by doctor Durif, now disappeared from French vineyards.
California red grape, probably the same as the Durif of the Rhone. Makes an inky-dark red wine that can last forever, but typically one-dimensional in flavor, with the warm, plummy notes typical of grapes grown in a warm climate.
Still thought by some to be the same stock as the minor french Durif grape, but recent DNA analysis has shown otherwise. Produces an dark red, tannic wine in the warm regions of California, used mainly as backbone for Central Valley "jug" wines.
The region also produces good-quality red and white wines, notably Shiraz and Durif, as well as the relatively uncommon production of sparkling red wine. In recent years other Rhone and Mediterranean varieties have been introduced.
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Once thought to be related to the Syrah grape of the Rhone Valley in France, it is now known to be the grape Durif. It has been said that this grape is "neither petite, nor Syrah.
DNA profiling in 1999 found Syrah to be the offspring of two obscure grapes from southeastern France, Dureza and Mondeuse Blanche. It should not be confused with Petite Sirah, a synonym for Durif, a cross of Syrah with Peloursin dating from 1880.
Not related, despite the name, to the more noble Syrah, this is grown mainly in California and South America, where it produces sturdy, robust, faintly spicy reds. No longer thought to be the same grape as France's (and Australia's) Durif.
DNA analysis has now shown - 8/1997 - there is in fact a probable relationship due to the chance seedling or selection, whose parentage derives from the Rhone region Peloursin and Syrah cultivars, discovered and named Durif in the 1880's.
In Australia where it is known as Shiraz, it represent 40% of all red vine plantings and the variety is largely ignored. Makes Australia's greatest wine Grange.
Note: Petit Sirah is not the same variety, but is actually the Durif variety, ...
The hard wine is characterized by an excess of astringency and acidity, but sometimes being able to attenuate with time. DURAS
Black Cépage produced especially with Gaillac
DURIF
Black type of vine of Dauphiné.
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