Green & Red Vineyard Tip Top Vineyard Petite Sirah, Napa Valley, USA 2019 Gerard et Hubert Thirot and delicate fresh raspberry fruits

and delicate fresh raspberry fruits

and dark fruit

Yet it opens in the mouth at you taste it

a result of a warm growing season

La Craie is made from fruit grown on tuffeau clay soils near the village of Vouvray

Green & Red Vineyard Tip Top Vineyard Petite Sirah, Napa Valley, USA 2019 Gerard et Hubert Thirot and delicate fresh raspberry fruitsLike the best petites, this takes a few days to show itself, shy but for the tannins you can readily sense in its aromatic heft. It smells of chapparal and petrol, fig and earth. After three days of air, a dark plum compote scent emerges, its sunny warmth becoming exotic and ferrous, with cardamom scented tannins and a sensual, firm texture.