Durif
Sign in to saveDurif is a variety of red wine grape mainly grown in Australia, California, France, and Israel. Since the end of the 20th century, wineries located in Washington's Yakima River Valley, Maryland, Arizona, Texas, West Virginia, Chile, Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, and Ontario's Niagara Peninsula have also produced wines from Durif grapes. It is the primary grape known in the U.S. and Israel as Petite Sirah, with over 90% of the California plantings labeled "Petite Sirah" being Durif grapes. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recognizes "Durif" and "Petite Si
Key facts
- Grape variety.name
- Durif/Petite Sirah
- Grape variety.image
- Durif Ampélographie.jpg
- Grape variety.caption
- Durif, colour plate from Ampélographie. Traité général de viticulture, Tome II (1901)
- Grape variety.species
- Vitis vinifera
- Grape variety.also_called
- Duriff, Plant Durif, Plant Fourchu, Pinot de Romans and Pinot de l’Hermitage, Petit Syrah
- Grape variety.origin
- Montpellier, France
- Grape variety.pedigree1
- Syrah
- Grape variety.pedigree2
- Peloursin Noir
- Grape variety.crossing_year
- c. 1880
- Grape variety.breeder
- François Durif
- Grape variety.regions
- Australia, California, France, Israel
- Grape variety.vivc_number
- 3738
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- History
- Regional production
- Australia
- United States
- Israel
- Petite Sirah and Petite Syrah
- Viticulture
- Wine
- References
- External links
Durif is a variety of red wine grape mainly grown in Australia, California, France, and Israel. Since the end of the 20th century, wineries located in Washington's Yakima River Valley, Maryland, Arizona, Texas, West Virginia, Chile, Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, and Ontario's Niagara Peninsula have also produced wines from Durif grapes. It is the primary grape known in the U.S. and Israel as Petite Sirah, with over 90% of the California plantings labeled "Petite Sirah" being Durif grapes. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recognizes "Durif" and "Petite Sirah" as synonyms. The grape produces tannic wines with a spicy, plummy flavour. It originated from Syrah pollen germinating a Peloursin plant. On occasion, Peloursin and Syrah vines may both be called Petite Sirah, usually because the varieties are extremely difficult to distinguish in old age.
== History == In the 1860s the French botanist François Durif kept a nursery of several grape varieties at his home in the commune of Tullins where he most likely had plantings of both Peloursin and Syrah. At some point the two vines cross pollinated and Durif discovered a new grape variety growing in his nursery. It was identified and named Plant du Rif (later Durif) by ampelographer Victor Pulliat in 1868.