Mountain Tides Petite Sirah "Clements Hills" 2019

Scott Kirkpatrick is one of a few winemakers who chose to find the nuances in Petit Sirah.  This bottle has the inky colored, thick, brash, tannin laden character Petite Sirah aficionados love about the varietal, but also something a little more: a perfumey “smile,” like a wave seeming to say “hey, dude, I’m a product of the Lodi sun,” plus a certain wild, scrubby earth tone and whiff of lavender reflecting a winemaker’s touch, or rather restraint from too much touching – particularly in terms of 100% native yeast fermentation, use of neutral oak barrels and picking of grapes early enough to maximize the tastes of the loamy clays of Lodi’s Clements Hills, as opposed to oak or overripe fruit.