Casanova di Neri, Brunello Montalcino Cerretalto

Casanova di Neri, Brunello Montalcino CerretaltoThe 2008 Brunello di Montalcino Cerretalto is one of those wines that is just born young. When I first tasted it on release, the wine showed immediately accessible characteristics of wild berry fruit and spice, lavished over a streamlined mouthfeel. Not much has changed since then. This vintage has maintained that sense of youthfulness and overall accessibility. The tannins are sweet and balanced against the wine's inner fruit flavors. This expression

An unusually spicy and appealingly fresh array is comprised by liqueur-like red berry fruit aromas

A wonderfully expressive and broad-ranging nose offers up notes of plums

This too is explicitly built for the long haul and is a wine that’s going to need at least a decade first

Delicious already

This is another straightforward

and spicy new oak

(from purchased grapes)

In contrast to the expressive spiciness of the Echézeaux

The nose of this nascent beauty was locked up tight for the first few minutes

Part of the wine matured in concrete (something they started in 2016)

this is an impressive set of wines

it is nonetheless quite promising