No other winery in Italy is so intimately linked to the origins, history and entire development of its denomination as Biondi Santi at Brunello di Montalcino. A story that has its roots in the nineteenth century, with the first winemaking trials by Clemente Santi, the one who dedicated most of his life to the study of Sangiovese and who saw his "selected red wine" awarded - in fact Brunello - at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1865.
A journey that has never stopped since then, and which has consecrated the cellar as the undisputed leader of the whole area of China, an example of tradition that everyone still looks up to today with admiration. The wines that come out every year from the Greppo estate are, in fact, still today considered as some of the greatest wines in the world, models of elegance and longevity. With plants that, in some cases, even exceed eighty years of age, the Greppo estate can now count on a vineyard extension of twenty-five hectares, in which only and exclusively Sangiovese Grosso plants can be found. The yields per hectare are very low, and are between 30 and 50 quintals, for an annual production that rarely exceeds 80,000 bottles, including 10,000 bottles of Brunello di Montalcino Riserva, produced only in qualitatively exceptional vintages. Only first-choice grapes arrive in the cellar, coming from vineyards that are at least ten years old for the vintage Brunello, and from plants over twenty-five years old for the Riserva. Then the processing, which begins with destemming, followed by crushing and fermentation, carried out in temperature-controlled cement vats and tanks. Finally, after the malolactic fermentation, the aging in large Slavonian oak barrels begins, and lastly the bottling, which takes place no earlier than four years after the harvest.
Few simple steps, in the sign of the most rigid and essential of traditions, for a Brunello, that of Biondi Santi, which finds its secret in its most ancient origins, renewed over the centuries from season to season, towards a prestige and a international reputations that to date know no bounds.