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Has anybody had this wine? Couldn’t find any real reviews of this exact bottle or their PV.
I love petit Verdot and find it hard to locate good quality bottles for a decent price. Feel like it’s just not as popular these days. Hoping I could get some validation on this and pull the trigger!
Thank you all in advance!
by Star-Lrd247
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You’re right in noticing it’s not very common, and it’s because it’s very difficult to make Petit Verdot as a quality wine. It needs a long growing season with high temperatures to really develop and it doesn’t commonly do that in Bordeaux, so it’s used in very small quantities in a blend, and even in places where it could grow well, it’s still often done that way. Here in Texas we do Petit Verdot pretty well, and I had a neat example in Arizona also. The Southern Hemisphere’s warmer areas are doing well, and I imagine Paso Robles and warmer Napa areas can succeed. Most of the time that somebody is attempting to make it as a varietal, I would assume they’re doing it because they think it will work, but if you get a bad example, I imagine it will be *pretty* bad.