Le Ragnaie - Casanovina Montosoli Brunello di Montalcino 2018 (1.5L)
Price: $333.00
Sale Price: $189.00
| Producer | Le Ragnaie |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Varietal | Sangiovese |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Size | 1.5L |
Jeb Dunnuck: 96 Points
The 2018 Brunello Di Montalcino Casanovina Montosoli is lush with ripe red cherry, crushed stones, and forest floor. It has a more expansive nature on the palate, with ripe and velvety tannins that bring more richness and depth to the wine, along with notes of pressed violets, plum, and dark mineral earth. It has a long finish and is the more full-bodied of the wines in the range. Drink 2025-2045.
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
One of three single-vineyard wines released by Le Ragnaie, the 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Casanovina Montosoli reveals fresh and saturated fruit flavors of dark cherry, pressed blueberry and mild spice. You feel the soft richness of ripe fruit. You also feel a distinctive mineral signature with chalky crushed stone that adds to the dryness and powdery tannins of this wine. Despite all that, there is a lingering sweet cherry note on the close. It needs a few more years to flesh out. The wine ages in both cement and large oak botte.
Wine Enthusiast: 95 Points
A nose that manages to seem both fruit-forward and earthy has cherries, strawberries and raspberries, then herbs and topsoil and finally a hint of graphite. The palate stays buoyant and sanguine with crunchy red berries and iron-rich soil and gets structure from rigid tannins and vibrant acidity.
Vinous: 95+ Points
The 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Casanovina Montosoli is a sleeping giant, slowly coming to life with a bouquet of dusty rose and brown spice over a core of dried black cherries. This is like crushed velvet on the palate, yet surprisingly lifted and graceful in feel, as dark red fruits and mineral tones drench the senses in primary concentration, leaving an air of balsam herbs to resonate. A caking of fine tannins is left to linger, nicely contrasted by a sizzle of residual acidity; yet in the end, the impression is one of youthful structure and poise. There’s such inner beauty here, but it will be years before the 2018 comes fully into focus.
Wine Spectator
A fluid, iron- and tobacco-tinged red, with a core of cherry and currant flavors wrapped in a firm, well-integrated structure. Reveals earth and savory Mediterranean scrub accents on the finish. Shows excellent harmony and finesse. Best from 2025 through 2042. 400 cases made, 158 cases imported.
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