Fabrizio Dionisio Il Castagno Syrah Cortona, Tuscany, Italy

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點擊次數：1915

The Fabrizio Dionisio 2019 Cortona Syrah Il Castagno is a lovely sunshine-driven expression with warm fruit, blackberry, plum, spice and leather. This wine is definitely on the fruity side of the spectrum (rather than the savory side), and that's what makes it so appealing, especially when consumed young.

The Fabrizio Dionisio 2018 Cortona Syrah Il Castagno is a wine of considerable fruit weight and concentration, with generous oak spice and smoke. You get dark fruit, cassis, dried blackberry, spice, tar and tobacco. This is the essence of Syrah from a warm and sunny climate such as Cortona in Tuscany. The oak emerges strong in this vintage (but you get terrific value nonetheless).

Here's a standup Syrah from the sun-drenched countryside that surrounds the little city of Cortona in eastern Tuscany. The Fabrizio Dionisio 2016 Cortona Syrah Il Castagno is a generous and softly layered wine with an inviting and cheerful personality. The bouquet opens evenly to showcase dark fruit, blackberry, spice and even a touch of powdered mocha or bitter chocolate. There are some very distant tones of charred meat and black pepper that are a standard feature of most quality Syrah-based wines. However, this wine delivers a magic touch of Tuscany as well.

The 2015 Cortona Il Castagno shows a thick and dark appearance. This wine represents a terrific union of two very compatible elements. The first is the Syrah grape that loves warm sunshine. The second is Tuscany that delivers those conditions on a happily consistent basis. I would add a third point of compatibility: The 2015 vintage that saw no shortage of luminosity and warmth. All of these factors combined create this beautiful wine that is exuberant, generous, rich and lasting. It is teeming with dark, ripe fruit richness.

A stellar example of Syrah from Cortona, Il Castagno is a soft and delicious wine with loads of ripe fruit, dark chocolate and leather. It’s a finely textured, smooth red with power and plump cherry on the finish. ——M.L.(2/1/2012)—— 92