Biondi-Santi and the test of time
Friday 30 April 2021

At Biondi-Santi everything changes so everything can stay the same. Walter grills the new team there.
There is no estate in Italy more closely identified with its owners than Biondi-Santi, rooted in Montalcino for more than six generations. In the mid 19th century Ferruccio Biondi Santi (for some reason, the wine has a hyphen, the family name not) isolated several superior vines of Sangiovese on his Il Greppo estate which he subsequently propagated and from which he made a varietal wine he labelled Brunello di Montalcino. He was the first to do so. Through time one clone gained such historical...
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