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[SOLD-OUT] Castagna Segreto Sangiovese Shiraz 2005

Jeremy Oliver 96 points!
Campbell Mattinson 95 points!
eRobertParker.com 93 points!

Jeremy Oliver 96 points!
Sumptuous and searingly intense, this 'Super Beechworth' of 60% sangiovese has a wild, heady perfume of plums, cherries and small berries backed by musky nuances of charcuterie meats, sweet oak and a suggestion of currants. Underpinned by firm, bony and finely astringent tannins, its sumptuous, velvet-smooth palate delivers deep flavours of plums, blackberries and dark cherries tightly knit with fine-grained and spicy oak. It finishes long and savoury, with lingering dark fruits and minerality."
Jeremy Oliver
Campbell Mattinson 95 points!
"Luxury wine made with high quality sangiovese and high quality shiraz. It's a great addition to the Australian wine landscape. Outstanding wine. Strong, straight, and savoury. Full of character and tannin. Gorgeously persistent " you can't shut it up " it keeps on talking to you. Flavours of kirsch, smoke, ground spice, hazelnuts, menthol/mint, sour and sweet berried fruit. I love it. It's fascinating."
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, June 2007
eRobertParker.com 93 points!
"The 2005 Un Segreto was the first vintage of this label. Blended of 60% Sangiovese and 40% Syrah and aged in 50% new oak, it is deep garnet colored with alluring lifted red berry / sour cherry aromas plus supporting notes of tea leaves, rose hips, anise and some underbrush. Medium-high acid cuts through the ripe, rich fruit and the medium to firm level of chewy tannins. The finish is long and complex. The wine is beginning to drink now but should continue to open and soften over 5-7 years and drink through 2022. A final precaution " I stress that all efforts must be taken with the shipping and storage of any naturally made wines such as these (e.g. wild yeast ferments, low SO2 additions and no filtration). The rewards of such winemaking methods are clear when presented with properly stored bottles but these wines are very vulnerable and I have had some bad experiences with bottles shipped to Singapore that have come in contact with heat. "I walked around and thought this place feels like Tuscany. So I planted Sangiovese," Julian Castagna told me with a glint in his eye. A relative newcomer to Beechworth, Julian has come up trumps with his former film career creativity and laudable instincts for unconventional methods that result in some truly eclectic wines. The estate wines (currently all but the Adam's Rib labels) are produced from biodynamically farmed, single vineyard fruit. In the winery he has giant egg-shaped maturation tanks and a custom built aeration contraption that look like an oversized cow's udder (that is in fact mainly used for the biodynamic dynamism processes...but not while I was touring). "I've always been interested in purity of fruit. We wanted to be clean, didn't want to use chemicals when we didn't have to," Julian explained during my visit. "We wanted to try and get the land to speak." I have to give it to him " Julian's extraordinary efforts to achieve this elusive goal somehow get the results."
Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Advocate # 189 Jun 2010


Country:
Australia
Region:
VIC- Beechworth
Variety:
Wine Red - Sangiovese
Size:
750mL

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