Castiglion del Bosco Millecento Brunello di Montalcino Riserva DOCG, Tuscany, Italy

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The Castiglion del Bosco 2015 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Millecento represents a happy return for a wine that we have not seen in a few years. This Riserva draws its fruit from an eight-hectare parcel with schistous galestro soils surrounded by thick forests and wildlife. Some 10,000 bottles were made. There is soft and rich cherry fruit at the core with light shadings of spice, cinnamon, tilled earth and a more sanguine tone of rust or iron ore.

The Castiglion del Bosco 2012 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Millecento offers toasted notes of espresso and roasted nut in a first aromatic wave. After that, you get dark, plump fruit with candied cherry and crème de cassis. Those rich flavors are tied tightly together at the core, resulting in balance and unity. This wine is made according to criteria that emphasizes both richness and smoothness.

The 2011 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Millecento sees fruit sourced from a vineyard of that same name that was planted in 1998. The castle that dominates the Castiglion del Bosco property was once an military fortress built to defend Montalcino against its rowdy neighbors in Siena and Florence. This wine is aged in large oak casks for three years. Only 6,000 bottles are made. The bouquet offers enticing tones of spice and dark fruit with rustic garden herb and wild mushroom thrown into the mix. The mouthfeel is extremely polished and fine. This is a very elegant wine that drinks beautifully right now.

The 2010 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Millecento shows a level of extreme elegance and harmony that I did not find in the 2008 vintage of this same wine. The fact that 2010 is a better vintage is an obvious asset, but I believe that the folks at Castiglion del Bosco have generally switched to a more streamlined wine style across their entire portfolio. This is a very welcome change. The bouquet opens slowly to reveal wild berry, balsam herb and pressed flowers. The wine is more vertical in approach than it is horizontal. In other words, the aromas lift gracefully with balanced intensity and buoyancy. I also suspect that this wine will promise a much longer aging potential compared to past incarnations.

The 2008 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Millecento is only released in magnums. I was a little surprised by this wine because, although it shows a beautiful degree of dark concentration and density, the wine also seemed tired and mature, especially on the nose. It seems to be evolving very quickly. Beyond the dark cherry flavors are hints of smoked bacon fat and Indian spice market. The wine is pretty much ready to drink on release. Drink: 2014-2019. Owned by Massimo Ferragamo of Florentine shoe-cobbling nobility, Castiglion del Bosco is one of those ambitious estates that was conceived of and developed in the years immediately prior to the 2008 financial meltdown. You can see the signs of that era’s optimism in the estate’s DNA. The winery and its case goods room are massive, high-rolling club members can rent private storage cellars on site and the actual Castiglion hamlet was loving restored into million-dollar apartments available for purchase on a quasi timeshare model. That last idea didn’t float and today the property is a gorgeous luxury hotel instead. Signs of pre-2008 optimism are also evident in the wines, patently made in a plump, yielding and supple style with broad international appeal. But times have changed and this set of new releases marks a departure from the sunny-soft toward a savory-streamlined approach. Importer: Maison Marques et Domaine, www.mmdusa.net