Castagna Genesis Syrah 2004 Tuesday, May 23 2006
Tasting Notes and Australia and Beechworth and Variety and Red and shiraz et al
This one is fresh off the truck. An engaging nose: sweet spicy fruit, deep fruit, black cherries and currants, cinnamon spice and chalk, and even some caramel oak (but not a lot really). Oh, and there are some dried apricots too, but perhaps this is just the power of suggestion. The palate shows dry coffee beans, red cherry fruits, dry woody spices, and creamy oak. This really is some quality fruit here, and some quality oak too. An excellent cool climate wine, and it should get better with time.
Rated : 92 Points
Tasted : May06
Alcohol : 14.0%
Price : $55
Closure : Diam
Drink : 2008 - 2012
Source : Cellar Door
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9 Responses to “Castagna Genesis Syrah 2004”
May 23rd, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Syrah !
I have had one in six months- you are very courageous. coffee beans and oak in the tasting note and you give it 92/100 !
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Yes, it holds itself well. Lots of oak yes, but excellent juice too.
May 24th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Nicey Nicey, fruit oak spicy!
July 19th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
I tried this at Wine Australia. This and the sangiovese (La Chiave) were pretty much the wines of the show (of the ones I tasted). The Castagna rose was outstanding too.
GW
July 19th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
Do they call it rose or something else?
July 19th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Something else. Allegro.
GW
July 20th, 2006 at 2:51 am
I too tried it at wine australia it was a stand out. By the way great site.
July 20th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Thanks!
GW
May 15th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
In Brisbane for work the past couple of days, I picked up a bottle of this from the excellent Festival Cellars and took it to dinner at Ecco. Great night, wine on song and wel-matched to the food. This built in the glass really well.