Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Soldera 2001

Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Soldera 2001

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Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Soldera 2001
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Soldera Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 2001 is a full-bodied Sangiovese red wine from the Montalcino sub-region of Tuscany, central Italy. Soldera was founded by Gianfranco and Graziella Soldera in 1970 and quickly established a reputation for producing some of the most highly sought-after Brunellos which highlight the terroir of their Case Basse property`s Sangiovese vineyards. On the 2001. "Soldera’s 2001 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva is just as it was when I tasted it from barrel last year, which is to say monumental. This silky-textured Brunello offers an array of crushed flowers, spices and deeply-layered dark red fruit in a style that manages to be both delicate and powerful at the same time. Deceptively medium-bodied at this stage, it appears to be holding back much of its potential but will be a remarkable wine in another decade or so. This is a superb effort from Montalcino’s most eccentric producer." Wine Advocate, 2007
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The 2001 Brunello di Montalcino kicks off our last flight, and appropriately so. What a wine. Explosive, perfumed and layered, with staggering depth, the 2001 is unquestionably one of the most profound wines Gianfranco Soldera ever made. An exotic mélange of dark-toned fruit, lavender, sage and menthol gradually opens. The 2001 constantly changes in the glass, one of the markers of a truly great wine. Its resonant and energy are simply magnificent. All of those qualities build into a stunningly beautiful and sustained finish. I can’t ask for anything more.

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The late Gianfranco Soldera was a visionary producer of some the purest and most ethereal expressions of Brunello di Montalcino. A former insurance broker, Soldera purchased his Case Basse estate in 1972. Until his death in 2019 at the age of 82, he was a zealous guardian of its unique terroir and the wines it produced.

With his botanist wife, Graziella, Soldera created Case Basse as an extraordinary ecosystem, including a two-hectare botanical park with more than 1,500 unique rose varieties, and a habitat for insect species that predate on vine parasites – thus allowing Soldera to forgo pesticides in his vineyards.

Beyond terroir, Soldera believed that the most important element for creating truly great wines was time. In practice, this meant slow fermentations (for a month or more), solely of free-run juice only, in large old slavonian oak vats without temperature control, followed by extended maturation in the same vessels – lasting up to six years for the flagship riserva bottlings.

With their trademark structure, hedonistic richness and beguiling aromatics, the wines of Soldera are unmistakeable. To have the opportunity to taste one at the peak of its maturity (such as the exquisite 1990), is a rare pleasure.

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