Biondi Santi - Rosso di Montalcino 1998
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 Rosso di Montalcino 1998 is made from the Sangiovese Grosso BBS11 clone, identified and selected by Biondi-Santi at the Greppo estate in the 1970s. The grapes were used exclusively from young vines less than 10 years old. The wine was aged in oak barrels from Slavonia for 12 months .
Varietal: 100% Sangiovese Grosso