Vinemark Cellars, Paso Robles (Central Coast, California) Petite Sirah Dessert Wine 2014

This is wickedly aromatic and concentrated and flavorful, providing a wild ride both on the basis of its very ripe and intense fruit character and also its commensurately intensely smoky oak.  There are refined dessert wines, and occasionally there are kick-down-the-door dessert wines, and this is decidedly from the latter breed.  Port-like in its weight and viscosity, and certainly fortified but really too fruity to seem hot, this is an undeniably exciting wine.  Just don’t serve this to the faint of heart.  A Double Gold award winner at the 2017 Toast of the Coast Wine Competition.