2021 Tua Rita Per Sempre Syrah Organic, Tuscany

Per Sempre represents Syrah in a more typical vinification compared to Keir. It's matured for around 17 to 20 months in new French oak barriques and combines funky, fragrant red berry notes with incisive acidity, balsamic freshness, verticality and salinity. Classic Syrah hints of bacon fat emerge with air, and the ripe, concentrated, cocoa-sprinkled red and black fruits are really nicely balanced. Intense yet light on its feet, this super-fresh red hides its underlying muscularity well. Delicious.

95 points James Button decanter.com

The aromas of red fruits with nutmeg and cinnamon come through clearly as well as notes of light cedar. It’s full-bodied with a tight and focused palate and very, very polished tannins. They feel lightly powdery with good tension before the long and vivid finish. Better after 2027.

96 points jamessuckling.com

Stefano Frascolla tells me two lessons he has learned about Syrah. The first is that it is a grape highly influenced by the soils it is planted in. Second, it is important to get the harvest window just right because Syrah has less latitude than, say, Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon when it comes to scheduling the pick. The Tua Rita 2021 Syrah Per Sempre is a beautiful wine that displays enormous richness and softness, without heaviness. There are soft fruit tones cushioned by cinnamon and sweet spice. The wine is opulent, but it also offers exciting tension at the same time.

I met with Stefano Frascolla in Rome to taste these wines at the end of last year. He had just come off the 2023 harvest and described the difficulties farming in that vintage, which were mostly due to excessive humidity (which can of course lead to fungal diseases if one is not extremely precise). He describes 2023 as a “hands-on vintage.” He concluded harvest on October 8th last year.

97 points Monica Larner robertparker.com