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Grape Varieties: 100% Syrah
Robert Parker`s Wine Advocate 96/100 "The 2016 Scrio is a fruitier Syrah than 2015, which was more about the pepper and the savoury spice. 2015 was broader, while this wine is more linear and classic. It boasts more depth and brings a lot of earthy tones, and it`s generally a much more vertical wine than 2015. This is a very precise, beautiful and detailed expression of Syrah that shows a very generous disposition overall. In fact, this wine harnesses the exuberant abundance of the grape and channels it with extreme elegance."
First Vintage: 1994
Harvest period: 2nd and 3rd week of September
Winemaking: fermentation and maceration for 20 days in steel tanks
Ageing: 13 months in new tonneaux and conical trunk cask
Food Pairing: Beef and Venison
This deep, spicy red was first produced in 1994. Rare and original and produced in very small quantities, Scrio quickly became a benchmark in Bolgheri. The name of the wine, inspired by a Tuscan expression that means “pure, candid, whole,” perfectly describes its defining characteristics.
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A noble black grape variety grown particularly in the Northern Rhône where it produces the great red wines of Hermitage, Cote Rôtie and Cornas, and in Australia where it produces wines of startling depth and intensity. Reasonably low yields are a crucial factor for quality as is picking at optimum ripeness. Its heartland, Hermitage and Côte Rôtie, consists of 270 hectares of steeply vineyards producing wines that brim with pepper, spices, tar and black treacle when young. After 5-10 years they become smooth and velvety with pronounced fruit characteristics of damsons, raspberries, blackcurrants and loganberries.
It is now grown extensively in the Southern Rhône where it is blended with Grenache and Mourvèdre to produce the great red wines of Châteauneuf du Pape and Gigondas amongst others. Its spiritual home in Australia is the Barossa Valley, where there are plantings dating as far back as 1860. Australian Shiraz tends to be sweeter than its Northern Rhône counterpart and the best examples are redolent of new leather, dark chocolate, liquorice, and prunes and display a blackcurrant lusciousness.
