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  • Country ranking ?

    228
  • Producer ranking ?

    22
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

Scrio was born in 1994, out of Eugenio Campolmi's wish to produce a wine which would best express his vision of Syrah, his favorite grape variety.
As all Le Macchiole wines, Scrio has an original personality and it is one of the very few Syrah wines produced in Bolgheri that stands out differendy from French Syrahs.
It is a very limited production of 5,000 bottles, the result of a painstaking selection of the best bunches harvested in our vi...

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An atypical bottling of Le Macchiole Scrio, this 2012 unfurls with delicate grace that belies its power. Rose petals, balsam, herbs and spice frame its transparent red fruits in this deeply aromatic wine whose sweet red cherries and berries rest on a foundation of tar, smoked meat and pepper. Restrained yet intense, the ’12 Scrio is all about finesse, and this bottling shows a remarkably elegant profile to the Syrah grape; chewy, supple tannins and a long, deceptively powerful finish round out this wine’s drinking experience. Deriving from a pair of Le Mecchiole vineyards, this mono-varietal Syrah ferments in temperature-controlled stainless steel for about three weeks, and it ages for 20 months in two different sizes of tonnaux, including some new barriques, before bottling.

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Tuscany, Bolgheri
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