Here are notes on more than 50 Brunello di Montalcino Riservas from the decidedly promising 2001 vintage, a follow up to my notes on the regular Brunello di Montalcino 2001s and overview of the vintage. Overall the standard of winemaking was high, with very clean wines, even if they were stylistically, and qualitatively in my view, pretty varied. A number of these wines seemed to have been over-extracted and forced, but the best are great wines by any standard. I tasted these at the Consorzio’s extensive stand at Vinitaly at the beginning of April 2007. Such heavy hitters as...