Linfa Syrah Cortona DOC 2019 - Fabrizio Dionisio
€40.26
VAT included
Linfa was born from the desire to explore a different dimension of Syrah, the umpteenth version in which this grape variety can be interpreted and declined, in red vinification (oh yes, because we also vinify it in white... and thus our beloved Rosa del Chestnut and Bolla Galeotta). After Castagno (the iconic wine of our company) and Cuculaia (our cru) which are aged for a long time in our barrique cellar, partly in wooden barrels of different sizes made for us by friendly master coopers, and partly in old barrels cement tanks that have always belonged to our cellar and have been perfectly refurbished through the patient work of invaluable craftsmen, acquiring extraordinary elegance, depth and complexity, and the "Castagnino", raised entirely (for a shorter period) exclusively in cement barrels, for safeguarding its bare, wild and fragrant profile, favoring varietal identity, immediacy and ease of drinking over complexity, I felt the need to discover how my Syrah could express itself by being born and growing in symbiosis with another material that fascinates me , like wood and cement, and which rightfully belongs to the most ancient, and natural, history of wine… and of man.
Having overcome the usual, essential for me, two-three years of trials and experiments, we thus decided to work a small batch of grapes entirely inside a few jars of the best terracotta from Impruneta and other parts of Italy, coming from the same parcels of our vineyards destined to form the mass of wine from which, every year, we obtain Il Castagno and Cuculaia, our most complex and evolved wines. There, after the harvest (usually in the last ten days of September, in search of the maximum, optimal ripeness of the grapes) the alcoholic fermentation takes place, after destemming of the grapes with intact berries (according to the characteristics of the vintage, in small part, even at whole bunch), punctuated by rigorously manual punching down, as well as the malolactic fermentation. And in the same jars the wine macerates on the skins (which protect it from oxidative risk) for a few months, until racking. Then, after a short period of homogenization in concrete barrels, the Linfa is bottled to face a further period of refinement in the bottle, of about a year. Its name, so evocative, comes from the casual and beautiful discovery of how this is the acronym of the names of my family members, my wife Alessandra, my children Isotta, Lavinia and Niccolò, and myself. Already in love with this last "child", I am convinced that it will still be able to grow, and well, perhaps also making use of the contribution of tanks obtained from further, different natural, ancient materials, derived from clay, therefore from the earth, whether it is terracotta, ceramic, cocciopesto or natural cement.
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Data sheet
Grape variety | Syrah |
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Format | 750 ml |
Alcoholic strength | 14.0% |
Region | Toscana |
Vintage | 2019 |
Name | Cortona |
Disciplinary | D.O.C. |