Biondi Santi - Brunello Di Montalcino - Riserva 1999
Biondi Santi is located in Tuscany , Italy. The family estate was established in the 1930s and is said to have been the first to produce Brunello di Montalcino . Ferrucio Biondi Santi, during the powdery mildew and phylloxera problems at the end of the 19th century, developed mass selections of his most resistant vines, then grafted them onto American rootstocks and continued to produce a red wine aged in oak barrels from Sangiovese while other producers either stopped production or moved to different styles of wine. Today the estate is run by Jacopo Biondi Santi and his sister Alessandra. The Biondi Santi vineyard has 25 hectares of Sangiovese , of which 5 hectares were planted between 1930 and 1972. They also own, since the 1990s, Castello di Montepo , an estate in Scansano in the Tuscan Maremma .
The Riserva 1999 is made from the Sangiovese Grosso BBS11 clone, identified and selected by Biondi-Santi at the Greppo estate in the 1970s. For this Riserva, the grapes were used exclusively from the oldest vines over 25 years old. . It was aged in Slavonian oak barrels for 3 years and was able to benefit from a very long aging in bottle in the calm and darkness of "La Storica", the aging cellar of Domaine Greppo, where all the cuvées historical Riserva Biondi-Santi are scrupulously preserved.
Varietal: 100% Sangiovese Grosso