Casanova di Neri - Rosso di Montalcino doc Giovanni Neri 2023

The Wine Independent
[vintage 2021]

Falstaff
[vintage 2021]

Dark ruby red with purple hues. Elegant on the nose, lots of ripe fruit, blueberry and cherry with a subtle herbal savouriness. On the palate intense and harmonious with more savoury characteristics, notes of black pepper and juniper, perfectly integrated acidity and ripe tannins and a lingering, pleasantly warming finish.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate
[vintage 2021]

The 2021 Rosso di Montalcino Giovanni Neri is the current vintage of this wine, which is punchy and bright with a vinous quality that underlines the wine's freshness and its youthful character. The bouquet is extremely clean and transparent, and you can peer through the red cherry fruit and raspberry to crushed stone and chalky dryness. It shows a beautiful color in the glass that matches the aromatic clarity offered to the nose. The only fly in the ointment is a high 15% alcohol content. Some 6,600 bottles were released.

The Neri family has two new wines to present. The biggest news is the introduction of the top-shelf Brunello di Montalcino Giovanni Neri. The wine—and the vineyard site—is named after Giacomo Neri's dad (and his son), and fruit comes from a seven-hectare vineyard that was planted in 1973 by a farmer named Tocci. After many, many failed attempts, the Neri family was finally able to buy this gem in 2017, despite claims by the old farmer that

Jeb Dunnuck
[vintage 2022]

A deep magenta color, the 2022 Rosso Di Montalcino Giovanni Neri is sourced from 50-year-old Brunello vines and is a step up from many of the Rossos of this vintage. It is aged for 12 months in used tonneaux and a few months in bottle before release. It opens to deep, layered aromas of blackberries, toasted anise, turned soil, and lavender. Full-bodied, with wonderful structure, it offers sweet, ripe tannins, and though it’s warming, it has good freshness and a floral perfume that lasts through its long finish. It is a rare case where Rosso is taken this seriously and this wine has some real aging potential, as it will continue to improve over the coming 2-3 years. Less than 5000 bottles were produced in this low yielding vintage. Drink 2024-2032.

James Suckling
[vintage 2022]

A complex and layered nose of graphite, cedar and bright raspberries. On the palate it shows an almost full body with crisp acidity and firm, crunchy and grainy tannins. Drinkable now, but best from the middle of 2025.