The Greatest Brunello Vintage Ever?
The 2004 vintage in Brunello di Montalcino has recently been described by Giacomo Neri of Casanova di Neri in Decanter magazine as “˜the greatest I’ve seen in my life’.
The 2004 vintage in Brunello di Montalcino has recently been described by Giacomo Neri of Casanova di Neri in Decanter magazine as “˜the greatest I’ve seen in my life’.
In this month’s Decanter magazine the Barolo 2004s have been tasted and assessed. As we have highlighted previously, the 2004 vintage was one of the best ever in Barolo.
Our Italy room boomed at the tasting. Many people tasted their way through Tuscany, the Veneto and Piedmont before heading south to Sicily.
In the January edition of Decanter magazine Tom Maresca ponders the use of new French barriques in Barolo and Barbaresco. Traditionally the wines were aged in botti, large barrels of Slavonian oak.
We have been working with Riecine for only three years, but each year we are more impressed by the quality of their wines. I took a bottle of La Goia 2004 home last night (on Robin and Tom‘s reccomendation). I...