Petite Sirah

Sparkling burgundy is made mostly from Zinfandel, Grenache, Barbera, Carignane, and Ruby Cabernet, but some Petite Sirah and Rubired are used also. 

Other reds there are several other reds that possibly could be grown in Washington. These include Petite Sirah, Malbec, Cabernet franc, and Limberger. Red varieties tend to be late maturing with high acids and more cold-sensitive than white. They should be planted in the warmer sites under low fertility conditions. 

Twelve commercial 1998 red wines that were part of a different study were used to study the correlation between polymeric pigments as determined by the method of Somers and Evans, and the polymeric pigments (background absorbance) in the protein-tannin precipitate. The twelve commercial wines were from nine different wineries nine of the wines were Cabernet Sauvignon, two were Merlot and one was Petite Sirah. 

From Yi etal. (1997). Abbreviations RW, red wine WW, white wine BT, blush table WT, white table. Total phenols expressed as gallic acidequivalents/1. Values in parentheses are the relative percentage of each compound. The extract of Petite Sirah grapes was the only sample containing flavan-S-ols (10.6 mg/1 as catechin). 

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