This Perfect 10 (94+ point) wine is not for the faint of heart! Sink your teeth into the big, tannic, chewy and delicious Lost Chapters Napa Petite Sirah.
Have we got a good one today! A Gold Medal and Best of Class winner at the San Francisco Wine Competition, this 100% Petite Sirah hails from Napa County. It is aged for over 24 months in French oak barrels and has just 1 g/L of residual sugar. Only 140 cases were produced.
The winemakers are two of the biggest names in the business, Paul Scotto and Mitch Cosentino:
In 2017 The Lost Chapters was born representing the culmination of 5th generation Winemaker Paul Scotto's dream. Each year Paul sources and crafts dozens of brands, varietals and blends for the Scotto Family's extensive wine portfolio. In his relentless search for just the right barrel lots to fit the profile of each bottling, Paul occasionally encounters something very special that deserves its own place. While these select and limited lots may enhance a given blend, they would also present themselves far better as a stand-alone that most likely would not be repeated in future vintages.
Add to this the deep experience of Mitch and you can begin to see why this wine is so special:
Mitch is the personification of a "hands-on" winemaker with his never ending drive and oversight from the vineyard to bottle and on to the glass. With his far-reaching expertise, Mitch has garnered almost 2000 awards and medals.
With foresight of things to come in the market, Mitch broke new ground with the founding of the Meritage Association (now known as the Meritage Alliance) in 1988 and produced the first American wine bottled with that designation.
Mitch is widely recognized in the international winemaking community for his blending skills, deep connection with the vineyard and amazing palate memory. He artfully combines these great skills in each of the wines he crafts exhibiting the distinctive expression of the vineyard and varietal (or mix of varietals) in precise balance.
Combining his "hands-on" tradition with a pledge to time honored Old World techniques, Mitch is committed to crafting small lots of extraordinary wines. A perfect fit with the Scotto family's vision for J. McClelland Cellars.
With this type of experience, Napa grapes, and extensive French oak, it's actually a bit surprising that the normal price of this wine is only $40.
Through today's Insider Deal; however, you can get 3 bottles of the 2017 Lost Chapters Napa Petite Sirah for $59.99, or $20 a bottle. That's a 50% discount and a SAVINGS of $20 a bottle.
Shipping is as always just $6.99. Buy multiples and you save even more since you'll never pay more than $6.99 shipping, no matter how many 3-packs you buy. Read on for our full review.
This 3-pack deal is available to ship to the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WV, WI and WY. (These states are dependent on the individual licenses of the offering winery and are not representative of all our deals. Every deal can have different, sometimes more, sometimes less, states available.)
This limited time, winery direct offer ends Friday 1/13/2023 at noon (PT) unless it sells out sooner.
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From the winery:
Deep purple-ruby natural color abounds. River stone minerality, black pepper, currants and black rose notes fill the aromatic profile. Flavors cross a broad spectrum of fruits: dense currants blackberries, black plums with rhubarb and peppercorns, well centered and big structured yet with a surprising suppleness on the mid-palate. It finishes long, spicy and firm with some ripe tannins.
A Wine Adventure From Mitch Cosentino and Paul Scotto
Bottled by J McClelland Cellars
14.6% Alcohol
Cork
The 2017 Lost Chapters Napa Petite Sirah opens with a big, very attractive aroma of ripe blackberry and plum, black pepper, cedar and dusty spice. It's certainly a promising start, which is confirmed on the very first sip.
Big, tannic and delicious in the mouth, this hedonistic Petite Sirah is filled with more ripe, dark fruit, very well-integrated spice and black pepper notes that are all wrapped up in a smooth, lush mouthfeel. This is a big, delicious Petite Sirah that is not for the faint of heart! It's fabulous with dark chocolate.
The wine ends with a dry, chewy, long and lingering finish of dark fruit and spice. This is a wine you can really sink your teeth into! It was slightly better on day 2. What a great example of Petite Sirah.
2017 LOST CHAPTERS NAPA PETITE SIRAH
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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