Brunello di Montalcino Riserva, Madonna del Piano, Valdicava 2007 vs Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2000
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2000 currently starts £2.00 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £166.00 | £164.00 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Valdicava | Tenuta San Leonardo |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Sangiovese | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
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Brunello di Montalcino Riserva, Madonna del Piano, Valdicava 2007
Valdicava's Madonna del Piano Riserva is, quite simply, one of Brunello's benchmark wines. Produced only in the finest years from a single plot of old-vine Sangiovese Grosso on the estate's highest ground, the 2007 is a wine of remarkable poise: deeply coloured, aristocratically structured, and possessed of that particular Valdicava quality where power and finesse refuse to choose between themselves. Dark cherry, dried roses, and iron-rich earth give way to leather and dried herbs as it opens, the whole thing held together by tannins that feel carved rather than painted. The 2007 vintage across Montalcino was long, warm, and slow-ripening - the kind of year that gives Sangiovese genuine depth without sacrificing its essential acidity. We'd open a bottle now with great pleasure, ideally after two hours in a decanter, but the wine will continue to reward patience until 2045 and quite possibly beyond.
Tenuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2000
“ …one of the great wines of Italy… Sassicaia and San Leonardo seem like brothers separated in childhood. ” Wine Advocate, December 2014 “ Surely the most successful Bordeaux blend of Northern Italy ” Jancis Robinson, August 2012 The wines are more akin to Bordeaux than Bolgheri with their balance and purity and (says leading Italian critic Nicolas Belfrage) ‘ can have an elegance-cum-depth capable of taking on the best clarets of the world‘ . San Leonardo’s owner Marchese Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga, a rare example (at the time) of a professionally-trained aristocrat-oenologist, spent time at Tenuta San Guido back in the 1960s and subsequently employed the same legendary consultant, Giacomo Tachis, as Sassicaia for a time. San Leonardo’s outstanding Bordeaux blend has received ‘Tre Bicchiere’ from Gambero Rosso for an extraordinary thirteen vintages consecutively and was also numbered among the Guide’s ‘Fifty Wines which changed Italy’. "One of my personal favourite Italian wines, unquestionably the top winery in the region and renowned as one of the most consistent – stylistically and qualitatively – in the whole of Italy, YET its wines remain extremely well-priced by comparison to more widely publicised names." Tom Harrow, Honest Grapes Wine Director
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