photo credit: wine-blog.org
Recently a fellow wine professional and friend of mine, Taylor Eason, accepted a position at Foppiano Vineyards as the new Director of Marketing. During a phone call to congratulate her as well as to discuss the new role I asked Taylor what types of wine Foppiano was known for. She replied, “Petite Sirah, first and foremost”.
I thought to myself for moment that maybe, just maybe, I wasn’t the ardent fan of Petite Sirah that I thought I was. Because, frankly, I never knew Foppiano produced a Petite Sirah much less as their main focal point varietal.
After that conversation came to an end I had another thought, “I wonder how many wonderful Petite Sirah’s are out there that I am missing out on? Better yet, I wonder how many I can find through Google?”
So began a quick search for other lovely purple teeth producing darlings that sometimes go by the name Durif. After switching my search to ‘images’ I came across a whole host of other wineries and their labels who grow and vinify this gorgeous grape that I had never heard of! This lead me to think that I was surely not the only Petite Sirah lover out there who had not tasted, much less heard of, some of these wines.
It dawned on me that many of them were most likely on Twitter so I started searching there as well. Wouldn’t you know it, I found a bunch of them on Twitter!
So I figured why not take some time and put together a neat video that actually shows the 90+ labels that I found and includes the Twitter handles for those that I came across.
Viola!
Petite Sirah – All hail the purple teeth!
@JC_Milam #purpleteeth
Thanks – even though it is only breakfast time – this makes me want to go wine shopping stat!
Jodi a/k/a tampawinewoman
Thanks for doing some of my market research for me JC!
You’ve got my fee schedule:-) just kidding! Hope you like the video, even so that Foppiano came during the sped up part.
JC,
Congratulations on finding Petite Sirah and have fun exploring this great varietal. Thank you for including Vina Robles in your list….also, check out the Petite Sirah Advocacy Group “PS I Love You” at http://www.psiloveyou.org for great information on Petite Sirah, the growers/producers, and Petite Sirah events!
Cheers!
I love your wines Simon Michael! Sending you an email with a rather different type of write up I did two years ago on Red4.
Just another creative wine lover/professional having fun with the subject.
Oh and I’m defintely aware of PSILoveYou.
Ciao
Looking forward to reading it (or refreshing my memory on it). New releases of Red4 & White4 to come out soon. Stay tuned!