Casanova di Neri
Brunello di Montalcino 2020
Tuscany, Italy
Regular price£260.00
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| Style: Red | Drink from: 2026 |
| ABV: % | Drink to: 2036 |
| Packaging: OCC | Stock arriving: May 2025 |
Critic scores
94 VM, 95 JS, 96 LPB, 17 JR
Critic reviews
"The Casanova di Neri 2020 Brunello di Montalcino (with the white label) represents a departure from the norm. Because the Cerretalto was not produced, fruit from that vineyard with its reddish mineral-rich soils was directed here instead. For that reason, this wine is especially spicy, lifted and intense. Dark cherry fruit is followed by rusty nail, black pepper and milled spice. The wine is fermented in steel tanks, sees 20 days of skin maceration and ages in botte and tonneaux for over three years. The oak is very well integrated. This is a wine of character (with 98,000 bottles made)."
Monica Larner, November 2024, RobertParker.com
"The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino is dreamy, with a confectionary burst of sweet spice and vivid crushed black cherries complemented by rosy florals. It's juicy, opening with a sweet and sour sensation as hints of cranberry and tart citrus give way to a tactile coating of crunchy mineral tones toward the close. This resonates with tension, long and staining with a tinge of bitter blackberry and tangerine that pucker the cheeks as edgy tannins frame the finish. Gorgeous."
Eric Guido, November 2023, Vinous.com
"Really delicious fruit with cherry and berry character, as well as a hint of cedar. Creamy tannins and fresh acidity. Grapes from the Cerretalto vineyard are used here this year. Drink or hold."
James Suckling, December 2024, JamesSuckling.com
"Deep ruby with orange tinges. Hints of rosemary over meaty, subdued fruit and the merest suggestion of oak. Lifted, lively sour-cherry fruit with a good bite of tannins on the finish. Lots of juice yet contained on the finish. Can be approached now but will improve."
Walter Speller, October 2024, JancisRobinson.com
Monica Larner, November 2024, RobertParker.com
"The 2020 Brunello di Montalcino is dreamy, with a confectionary burst of sweet spice and vivid crushed black cherries complemented by rosy florals. It's juicy, opening with a sweet and sour sensation as hints of cranberry and tart citrus give way to a tactile coating of crunchy mineral tones toward the close. This resonates with tension, long and staining with a tinge of bitter blackberry and tangerine that pucker the cheeks as edgy tannins frame the finish. Gorgeous."
Eric Guido, November 2023, Vinous.com
"Really delicious fruit with cherry and berry character, as well as a hint of cedar. Creamy tannins and fresh acidity. Grapes from the Cerretalto vineyard are used here this year. Drink or hold."
James Suckling, December 2024, JamesSuckling.com
"Deep ruby with orange tinges. Hints of rosemary over meaty, subdued fruit and the merest suggestion of oak. Lifted, lively sour-cherry fruit with a good bite of tannins on the finish. Lots of juice yet contained on the finish. Can be approached now but will improve."
Walter Speller, October 2024, JancisRobinson.com
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