Casanova di Neri Tenuta Nuova Brunello di Montalcino 2009

93/100 PP

"The 2009 Brunello di Montalcino is an impressive and impeccable wine that delivers a slow and sensual progression on the palate. Along the way, it leaves a steady stream of ripe fruit, spice, tobacco, licorice and balsam herb that is both impactful and vibrant. The wine’s aromas are very well-delineated, clean and never color outside the lines. The textural fabric of the wine is velvety and rich, thanks to a long 43 months in oak. Having had the opportunity to taste many older vintages of Giacomo’s wines, I find that they possess a great capacity for cellar aging."
(Monica Larner, robertparker.com)

93/100 vinous

"Vivid red. Multidimensional nose offers captivating aromas of raspberry, sour red cherry, redcurrant, brown sugar, cinnamon and minerals, lifted by a strong note of fresh citrus fruit. Vibrant flavors of red and black fruits, pink peppercorn and sweet spices are wonderfully pure and juicy. This sneakily concentrated yet refined wine shows a rare blend of power and delicacy and finishes extremely long, with very fine-grained tannins and truly mind-blowing purity of small red fruits and violet. Impeccable balance only adds to its star qualities. One of the best young Tenuta Nuovas I have ever tried and it's also one of the two or three best Brunellos of the vintage."
(Ian D'Agata, vinous.com)

"Giacomo Neri erzeugt normalen Brunello und zwei Einzellagen-Weine: Den ausgezeichneten Cerretalto sowie den sensationellen Tenuta Nuova. Dabei stimmt er die Fassreife jeweils auf die Qualität und Beschaffenheit des Jahrgangs ab."
(Der kleine Johnson)