Pebreaste Sirah

I think pebreaste sirah aka duriff is after zin the best indigenous grape in California. Many red jug wines have pebreaste syrah or sirah in their uvaggio or blend. Its blended into the better zinfandels at the upper end of the scale. York Creek in Napa has been used by Ridge for about 35 years in their zins or on their own. The grape does well in the Livermore area and along the Pacific coast from Santa Cruz to Carmel. Properly made it lasts a loooong time. I drank my last bottle of the 1975 Mt Veeder 5 years ago and it was just opening up. Sometime in the mid 1980's I did an all, for a tooth scrapping, ps tasting. Tasting of a bunch of tannic, high in alcohol wines was not a pleasant experience, I should have waited at least 10 more years to pop the corks. My most recent ps was made by a former client Thomas Coyne who purchased the grapes. He cut back the alcohol and made a wine that was good with roasted dishes. I think his supply dried up as the vineyards were plowed over by a developer. Mr. Coyne was a cellar rat at Rosenbloom before he founded his namesake winery.