Zayante Vineyard
Les Pierres Sombres
100% Petite Sirah
An inky, powerful wine whose deep color and firm structure found a fitting identity after 18 months in new French oak and eight more months in stainless: Les Pierres Sombres—the dark stones.
Wine highlights
01 / Progress
The wine,
step by step.
- Variety100%
A pure Petite Sirah
The wine was made as a 100% single-variety bottling, allowing Petite Sirah’s color, power, and structure to define the record.
- Élevage18 months
New French oak
The wine fermented and aged in new French oak for 18 months.
- Finish8 months
Stainless before bottling
A further eight months in stainless allowed the wine to settle and integrate before bottling.
- NameNamed
Les Pierres Sombres
The name—meaning the dark stones—captured the wine’s Rhône-rugged combination of color, weight, pepper, earth, and structure.
02 / Tasting record · Bottle identity
“A wine of stone, shadow, black fruit, and grip.”
Once open, the wine shows black pepper, ripe blackberry, blueberry, and plum with floral undertones beneath its robust tannin.
Wine profile
- Color
- Inky purple · nearly black
- Fruit
- Blackberry · blueberry · plum
- Structure
- Firm, gripping tannin
03 / Notes
What stays
in the record.
The cellar path
The wine spent 18 months in new French oak and another eight months in stainless steel before bottling.
The name
Les Pierres Sombres translates to the dark stones. It carries the wine’s Rhône-rugged mood without over-explaining it.