Four Winds Petite Sirah 2010

It's been a busy week!  We took a long weekend to go down to the Carmel area to visit some wineries and enjoy the fantastic weather. I had a lot of wine, a beer, some cocktails, good food, and tons of fun. The area is known for chardonnay and pinot noir and we had some notable ones. My favorite wineries that we went to are Marilyn Remark and Joyce, and I'll get to them eventually, but I'm going to review something different today.

After we got back our friends opened up a bottle of Four Winds Petite Sirah 2010. It was really closed up at first, so they decanted it, and as we sipped we noticed how much it opened up. It's a lovely dark color, with a nose of dark fruit and leather. As it opened up, the taste was full of blackberries and deep fruity tones (black cherry? hard to place). Leaving it open overnight probably would have been even better, but even as it was this was a delicious wine.

Four Winds is near Murphys, CA, in the Sierra Foothills. This entire area along Hwy 49 is really up and coming in the wine industry, but they've been growing vines out here for many years. The area is known for zinfandel, but there are many other varietals (like the petite sirah).  I've never been to any wineries there, but we're planning a little road trip in September to check it out.