Best Brunello of the Year by Wine & Spirits

We're thrilled to announce that the 2004 Riserva has just been named as one of Wine & Spirits Magazine's 100 Best Wines of the Year in its Winter 2011 issue, and is tied for Best Brunello! According to Wine & Spirits, "Of the 10,867 wines we tasted last year, these are the 100 that excited us the most, the ones with the most elegant and delicious ability to taste of where they grow. By nature, the 100 Best Wines of the Year are diverse in style, ranging from tart and lean to welterweights to ripe blockbusters, from those that strike a resonant chord with our expectations and those that help us understand a region in a completely new way.

"The wine was awarded 93 points, and W&S continued on to say, "From a ten-acre vineyard in western Montalcino, at an altitude of 480 meters, this wine developed its share of earthy power in 2004 (the first great vintage since Dick Parsons, then president of Time Warner, bought the property in 2000). Rooted in mineral tannin, the wine is brisk and sunny, with an elusive power to its fruit. New oak is still a major element, but there’s plenty of earthen depth to the flavors that emerge from underneath.  For the cellar and eventually, a thick-cut ribeye. "The limited production of this wine included 3,916 750-ml bottles, 125 Magnums and 25 Double Magnums and was bottled on July 1, 2009.

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