Community Tasting Notes 83

• Ernestas Likes this wine: 98 points

  January 20, 2024 - A highlight by Casanova di Neri, an explosive BdM erupting with profound aromas, powerfully built body and concentrated muscular structure. Aged in oak 29 months, in bottle 30. Deep garnet, ruby hue. Perfumed rich aroma of cherries, prunes, cold cuts, sweet tobacco, chocolate, liquorice, earth. Full body, extraordinary complexity, power, concentration and most importantly - balance. Dense structure, multilayered lush and seductive flavours, high ripe and grippy tannins, deep and prolonged persistent finish.

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• Life At Your Leisure 🍷 wrote: 98 points

  November 22, 2023 - Dark ruby garnet color with finely grained particles fading toward the orange rust rim with a reflective edge. The nose gives off smoky aromas of red berries and violets spiced up by toasted oak. The palate is medium to full-bodied with a silky texture that gives a clean, polished mouthfeel with flavors of black berries and dark cherry braced with acidity that balances power and intensity with elegance. Due to its age, there are secondary flavors of leather, cola, tobacco and pencil shavings from the oak aging with tertiary flavors of pine nuts in the long, transcendent finish. Drink now with a 20-minute decant until 2033.

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• Volleyball Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 16, 2023 - I’ve only had a few of these but every one has been excellent, this one no exception. Beautiful, complex aroma and flavor with rich dark cherry fruit balanced with herbal and forest floor flavors. Large aroma and flavor but not overwhelmingly so

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• Derek Darth Taster wrote: 95 points

  September 10, 2023 - 04 Brunellos at home. Tasted blind. Drank in Conterno Sensory.
  Appearance is clear, deep intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, pronounced intensity, with aromas of vanilla oak, black plums, black licorice, tarry earth, violets. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, high alcohol (14.5%), structured high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of vanilla oak, sweet spices, black licorice, sweet dark tar, earth, black plums, black cherries, blackberries, underlying sour red cherry. Long finish.
  Very very good quality. Serious big wine made in a polished modern style. Lots of ambitious oak and deep fruit concentration to support. Actually improved with more air, with the vanilla oak integrating in nicely and developed smoky incense notes. Will last long time, hopefully oak not outlasting the fruit.

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• chetlee wrote: 95 points

  July 1, 2023 - Absolutely steller Brunello. Leather, tobacco, still good fruit and well integrated.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Casanova di Neri
• Varietal Sangiovese
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Cerretalto
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Montalcino
• Appellation Brunello di Montalcino
• UPC Codes 083664865710, 7487899000282, 802586204002, 8025862040027, 8025862090015, 8025862150122

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• Pending Delivery 25 (1%)
• In Cellars 1,560 (60%)
• Consumed 1,008 (39%)

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