Campbell Mattinson 94+ points!
Campbell Mattinson 94+ points!"With the 2001 release, Castagna Genesis Syrah really started to hit its straps.
In great form " this is a wine that has settled into its skin in the most beautiful of ways. Aniseed, red jelly beans, smoke (from barrel), rosemary and bacon " it's a complex, balanced, integrated, and finely tannined wine. Some notes of stems, in a positive sense. It works itself up to a lovely hum of flavour, and carries that momentum through the finish."
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, Aug 2008
"Other highlights of the trip included an afternoon hanging out with Julian Castagna in Beechworth. Sage, rebel, iconoclast, drinker, thinker, talker, vigneron and the producer of some of the most deliciously savoury, mineral, complex and grown up wines I tasted all trip. On my last night in Sydney someone pulled out a Castagna 2001 Genesis Syrah. We were also drinking a very good Cote Rotie from 2000 (I can't remember who from), and side by side, you couldn't tell the two glasses apart."
Tim Wildman MW, WineTec
Country:
Australia
Region:
VIC- Beechworth
Variety:
Wine Red - Shiraz
Size:
750mL
