Return to Renieri: a pre-shipment offer of Marco Bacci's newly released 2010 Riserva

2010 Brunello Riserva: 'A young Brunello with precision and complexity showing violets, blackberries, bramble berries, tea leaf and minerals. Stone undertones, too. Full body, a compressed palate and firm and velvety tannins. Powerful and long. Truly fantastic. Breathtaking. Better in 2018. 100pts' - James Suckling, jamessuckling.com, October 2015 

It's been a while since we visited the dapper Marco Bacci or his estates in Castelnuovo Berardenga, Montalcino and the Maremma. In fact, it's 9 years, which means two things: first, that Marco has an even more youthful look about him in our photo than he does in reality and second, that the wines have moved on considerably. Although we saw great promise back then, by 2006 Renieri had only been in Marco's possession for 5 years, and so it was very much a work in progress. Today, what were then new plantings are reaching maturity. And tucked away in a secluded spot in the propitious southeast corner of the Montalcino zone, at an ideal altitude of 350-420m, those vines are capable of producing some of the very finest Brunello. In Marco's hands, that is precisely what they are now doing, and so we are delighted to bring you an offer of his just released, highly acclaimed 2010 Brunello Riserva.  /AR

Offered subject to confirmation for shipment January 2016