Casanova di Neri Brunello Tenuta Nuova DOCG 2017 1.5L

Here is the wine that is at the top every year when various reviewers have to describe Brunello di Montalcino. A single vineyard wine that Giacomo Neri created when, many years ago, he bought a place in S. Angelo in Colle, where no one had ever tried wine before. Giacomo believed in this enormous rocky place with a completely unique microclimate, and called the place Tenuta Nuova, NEW VINEYARD .

Since the first vintage in 1993 was presented, the status and fame of this wine has only gone one way, and that is up. It has had all the awards you could wish for. Some have complained about new oak, which was the case until approx. 8 years ago, when Giovanni Neri, Giacomo's eldest son, took over the field and cellar, at the same time as they threw Carlo Ferrini, mister barrique, at the gate.

This has meant that today Tenuta Nuova is a wine where notes of new oak have been replaced by elegance, balance and delicious fruit. Giovanni Neri is simply a genius in the field and he will take Casanova di Neri to new heights.

2017 was a very difficult year. In the spring, at the worst possible time, the frost came and took a lot of grapes. The summer was extremely hot, and the end of that was, among other things, that production has been much below normal.

Giovanni has sorted and sorted and it has been necessary to get a wine at the level he wants.