Giovanna Neri’s winery focuses on a young, feminine and modern image and offers a very convincing wine style.
Giovanna Neri, sparkling owner of Col di Lamo, is a lawyer who decided a few decades ago to devote herself to her passion; making wine in the footsteps of her father, also an entrepreneur with a great passion for agriculture. The beginning is cautious: a few bottles, a well-organized but rather cramped cellar and a little girl to raise. With determination and perseverance Giovanna pursued and achieved many of the goals she set for herself. Now the winery covers about 80 hectares with 6 hectares of Brunello di Montalcino, 1.5 dedicated to Rosso di Montalcino and another 2 hectares dedicated to various grape varieties both native and allochthonous to make “different experiences.”
The winery, easily accessible from Via Cassia, is linear, beautiful, colorful and efficient. Inside are barrels and tonneaux, medium-sized fermenters, and a set of machinery that is constantly evolving, “one should not get ahead of oneself,” says Giovanna with great humility and conscientiousness. The vineyards are run as certified organic and the vines harvested and vinified individually. They are dedicated to individual wines, an attitude that we really like and that allows the winery to have a comforting continuity on products.
We can say that with the latest vintages presented Giovanna has reached a very convincing technical and stylistic maturity, producing very territorial wines. We are in the northeastern side of Montalcino where the wines are elegant and very drinkable, with the balances delicate and never muscular. Thirty years ago they were said to be Rosso di Montalcino lands; now with climate change and modern agronomic techniques this is no longer the case; on the contrary, they have been much re-evaluated from a Brunello perspective.
In the last visit we tasted the products of Giovanna’s artistic maturity: the Brunello di Montalcino 2018 preview, the Brunello selezione Diletta 2016, the Brunello Riserva 2016 and the Rosso 2020. To read their descriptions, click on the names of the wines.
