Castagna Vineyard- Segreto Syrah/Sangiovese 2013

Sangiovese & Shiraz are not two grapes you normally see together, but this is certainly not the same as mixing Chianti and Hermitage either. The red fruit characteristics of both grapes here are due to the elevation and the age of the soil. It is more like taking the best parts of young Brunello and adding them to the best parts of a cold vintage of Côte Rôtie. The wine has a bright-red floral quality, but the fruit is unmistakably Aussie. Ripe red raspberry and plum notes to go along with Bing cherry compote, blueberry coulis, dark-brown spices and rocky granite minerality. On the palate, the tannins show an old-world like dryness, almost the same country road quality Brunello is famous for. The wine is simple harmony if you didn't know these grapes don't typically go together. It is unique and certainly worth of both the old and the new world audience.