2000 Casanova di Neri Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta Nuova

This wine offers a nostalgic look back in time when the winemaking style in Montalcino also embraced rich and thickly extracted wines like this. The 2000 Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta Nuova opens to an inky dark color with black fruit and super ripe flavors. Giacomo Neri says that at the time he wanted to make wine opposite to "the thin, tea-looking wines with so much acidity and bitterness." He created this wine, and today, tasting this now, you can't help but celebrate the fact that styles have reverted to the thin, crisp and streamlined approach he wanted to avoid. This is too much of a good thing with thick lines, bold fruit and bulky or chunky lines. This is a wine of yesteryear.