Le Ragnaie

Brunello di Montalcino, Vecchie Vigne, 2007

Name: Brunello di Montalcino, Vecchie Vigne
Brand: Le Ragnaie
Price: 372.82 GBP

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2007
3x1.5L
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£499.22
2007
1x3L
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£372.82

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

From a single plot called Ragnaie, next to the estate, planted in the 60s, which at 550 metres above sea level, are among the very highest vines in Montalcino. The wine is aged in the same way as the estates regular Brunello in large 25hl barrels. More floral and feminine than the Fornace, perfumed gripping and totally beguiling, a seductive Brunello that offers small, intense berry fruit flavours, aromatic notes of ripe alpine and wild strawberry fruit, red cherry, cherry blossom and sloe touches. As refined and elegant as this is, there is massive intensity of flavour and a huge, focused finish. Breathtaking. no more than 170 cases were made.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

93/100

Stephen Tanzer,

Vinous

Good bright, dark red. Pure but restrained nose shows good mineral lift to the aromas of plum, cherry, chocolate and spices; distinctly darker in its fruit character than the classico. Densely built but weightless and sappy, with a distinctly saline minerality energizing the fine-grained fruit and chocolate flavors. At once nicely delineated and seamless, showing superb fruit intensity and lift. Finishes dense and long, with building tannins and a palate-staining cherry character.

date of review 07/2012

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.