Linfa Syrah Cortona DOC 2019 - Fabrizio Dionisio

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.