Le Macchiole Toscana Scrio 2022 750ml

The Le Macchiole 2022 Scrio (made with 100% Syrah) is the first wine we tasted in a flight of the estate’s top reds (that includes Paleo and Messorio). This lineup indicates a growing level of richness and intensity expressed in this hot and dry vintage. The Scrio (with 4,000 bottles made) has a level of bright primary fruit that comes out roaring. The power and textural richness of the vintage is immediately clear, and you get dark fruit, sweet spice and a nicely hydrated mouthfeel and tannins. The estate has seven hectares of Syrah in the Vigna Vignone and an additional 9,000 square meters of vines in the Casavecchia vineyard that is 200 meters above sea level with schistic galestro soils and head-pruned plants. The first site delivers the wine’s roundness and sweet fruit, whereas Casavecchia brings the acidic tension and linearity. This wine is a 50-50 blend of both parcels. No whole cluster is used because the skins were too fragile and the stems did not fully ripen. The wine is fermented in Tava cement vats, and cap management is more of an infusion with submerged cap. Great care is taken to avoid oxygen, which could result in undesired black olive-like aromas. This wine has taken on a life of its own, and the intensity of primary fruit is excellent.