Caparzo Brunello di Montalcino Vigna La Casa 2012
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Winemaker Notes
Try pairing with roasts and split-roasted meats, grilled meats, game, braised meats, and aged cheeses.
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James Suckling
Aromas of plums and chocolate with hints of hazelnut. Medium body, a solid core of ripe fruit and a rich and long finish. Very fine and polished character. Better in 2019.
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Wine Enthusiast
Enticing scents of red berry, baking spice, Mediterranean scrub and a hint of eucalyptus slowly emerge. The elegantly structured palate delivers black cherry, licorice, clove and espresso framed in youthfully austere but refined tannins. It's still young and tightly wound but balanced, with bright acidity. Drink 2020–2028.
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Wine Spectator
This is rich, sporting cherry, graphite, leather and spice flavors allied to a taut, linear frame. Firm tannins dominate the earthy finish. Needs some time to come together. Best from 2021 through 2035.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Caparzo has crafted a beautiful, albeit simple, single-vineyard Brunello in this vintage. The 2012 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna la Casa is a plump and enriched red wine with juicy fruit flavors of blackberry, dried cherry, spice, leather and moist earth. The wine is very likable, yet it offers a more approachable style and less nuanced complexity as a result. I found less dimension here compared to some of its peers. However, I would gladly drink this bottle with a steaming plate of homemade fettuccine with wild boar ragù. That pairing would be delicious.
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The origins of the place named Caparzo are still unknown. According to some people, the name is derived, as shown by ancient maps, from Ca’ Pazzo; according to others, the term should derive from the Latin Caput Arsum, indicating "a place touched by sun”. The history of Caparzo dates back to the end of the 1960s at the dawning of Brunello di Montalcino, when a group of friends, fond of Tuscany and of wine, purchased an old ruin with vineyards at Montalcino. The farm estate was renovated, modernized, and new vineyards were planted. In a short time, Caparzo made itself known in the Brunello market. In 1998, 30 years after the first rows of vines were planted, the farm estate came to a turning point when Elisabetta Gnudi Angelini purchased Caparzo. With the help of her son, Igino, and daughter, Alessandra, she immediately carried out her objective: combining tradition with innovation to create a high-quality wine that is the expression of an excellent territory.