Switchback Ridge

Petite Sirah, Eighteen Years On

Switchback Ridge Petite Sirah Peterson Family Vineyard Napa Valley 2002 · Napa Valley, USA · tasted 31 January 2021

Petite Sirah is the grape Napa uses for colour and tannin and rarely bottles on its own. A single-vineyard version from Calistoga, made by Bob Foley, opened at eighteen years to see what the tannin had turned into.