Wine Doctrine
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Reviews

8 notes

2010

Aratas Petite Sirah

California · Napa Valley

Previous notes apply. Resolved and likely as integrated as it will get before it starts to move into the later stages of its evolution. Black and purple fruits dominate. PnP was good service. Drink…

Reviewed 28 November 2018
2010

Aratas Petite Sirah

California · Napa Valley

This has lost a little steam since I last had it in 2016. Still "fine," but not as attention-grabbing as in the past. I like it. I don't love it. A Tuesday night throw-down with pizza kind of wine…

Reviewed 8 July 2018
2009

Aratas Petite Sirah

California · Napa Valley

Previous notes apply. This paired fine with smoked beef brisket. Otherwise, it was a pretty simple expression of the varietal. Blasé in most ways. It's the girlfriend you had back in high…

Reviewed 25 December 2017
2010

Aratas Petite Sirah Shake Ridge

Sierra Foothills · Amador County

Notes of black raspberry, wild blackberry, green and black olive, green peppercorn, and some mossy wet black slate. A little bit funkafied, with a clipped and clunky finish. It was ok, but a somewhat…

Reviewed 18 October 2017
2009

Aratas Petite Sirah

California · Napa Valley

It's been a year and a half since I last had this. It's good. It's nothing that gets me fired up for anything in particular, but it served its purpose with packaged pasta and red sauce (you get the…

Reviewed 25 April 2017
2010

Aratas Petite Sirah

California · Napa Valley

PnP with dark and viscous black and blue berry fruit flavors; blackberry, boysenberry, blueberry, and a hint of black cherry and/or black raspberry cutting through the dark core of black/blue fruit.…

Reviewed 30 June 2016
2008

Aratas Petite Sirah

California · Napa Valley

Very similar to my CT notes on the 2009 Aratas, with the 2008 coming off just a little more nuanced and complex than the 2009.

Reviewed 12 November 2015
2009

Aratas Petite Sirah

California · Napa Valley

Dark purple, blue, and black fruit notes; blueberry, blackberry, smoke, tar, and faint flower notes. A little chunky and chewy, throwing off quite a bit of sediment. Mellowed out nicely after an hour…

Reviewed 20 September 2015