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Rach’s Picks: 6 (Italian) Things Rach Is Loving Right Now
Rach’s Picks: 6 (Italian) Things Rach Is Loving Right Now
Rachael-approved favorites from around the boot. By Rachael Ray August 25, 2021 ... 4. Italian Red Wine! I may have said once or twice that I love a full-bodied Italian red. Vietti makes the most delicious Barbera d'Alba. Altesino is my go-to Rosso di Montalcino. Biondi-Santi's is amazing, too. Really, I'll drink any wine made in Montalcino. Read the full article here
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Italy, Tuscany, Montalcino: The 2013 and 1983 Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino Riservas
Italy, Tuscany, Montalcino: The 2013 and 1983 Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino Riservas
MONICA LARNER 15th Jul 2021 | The Wine Advocate | July 2021 Week 2 Earlier this year I published a spotlight on new releases from Montalcino’s Biondi-Santi. In that article, I reviewed the 2017 Rosso di Montalcino and the 2015 Brunello di Montalcino. This little article focuses on two wines from the winery’s historic library. The 2013 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva is a current release, and the 1983 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva is part of the estate’s late-release program. Both wines show stunning freshness and depth, a reminder of the slightly cooler conditions seen in both years. Sangiovese loves a long and steady growing season...
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The State Of Tuscany’s Brunello Di Montalcino And The 2016 Vintage
The State Of Tuscany’s Brunello Di Montalcino And The 2016 Vintage
John Mariani Contributor Dining I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. A few weeks ago I wrote that Italian wine laws, which began in 1966 to make sense of all the grapes and regions of the country, had become so suspiciously generous in awarding the highest appellation of DOCG (denominazione di origine controllata garantita), guaranteeing the wine in the bottle was among the finest in its region, that it has become almost meaningless as a guide. I noted that DOCG started out with only five wines, among which was Tuscany’s Brunello di Montalcino, at a time when there...
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Behind the Bottle: Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino
Behind the Bottle: Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino
Brunello di Montalcino was created by Tuscan estate Biondi-Santi. We take a look at what goes into making the cult wine, and how it's stayed true to its origins throughout the years WORDS BY ADAM LECHMERE For a certain type of wine lover there are few more recognisable labels than the Brunello di Montalcino of Biondi-Santi. The story of this great dynasty is the story of a handful of men, charismatic and powerful characters succeeding one another (and ultimately falling out), each looking to the future not only of their family, but of the whole of Montalcino. Biondi-Santi created Brunello, and it...
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Biondi-Santi and the test of time
Biondi-Santi and the test of time
Walter Speller 30 Apr 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...
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9 ‘Perfect’ 100-Point Brunellos You Can Buy Right Now
9 ‘Perfect’ 100-Point Brunellos You Can Buy Right Now
Experience the greatness of the Italian reds from Montalcino. By SARA L. SCHNEIDER Photo: Craig Drollet In the rarified world of trusted wine critics, there’s a new expert in town—and she’s just given her first 100-point score to a … Brunello di Montalcino (Le Chiuse 2016, to be specific). Audrey Frick—an alum of Colorado’s beloved Frasca Food and Wine restaurant as well as its sister, Tavernetta, where she oversaw an all-Italian wine list—has joined Jeb Dunnuck (himself a veteran of Robert Parker Wine Advocate and a leading global wine critic) as a contributing editor at jebdunnuck.com. Her beat, as you might have guessed, is Italy Brunello seems an...
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9 Brunello di Montalcinos You Should Buy Right Now
9 Brunello di Montalcinos You Should Buy Right Now
If you're looking for a knockout Italian wine, you can't do much better than Brunello. By Brian Freedman Updated April 28, 2020 TERLATO WINES / TENUTA LUCE / FRESCOBALDI TOSCANA / LE CHIUSE / CASTIGLION DEL BOSCO Brunello di Montalcino is one of Italy’s most revered wines, and arguably represents the apex of what the Sangiovese grape is capable of. While consumers and critics often seem eternally destined to debate the relative merits of a more traditional style versus a more modern one, it’s impossible to argue that today's Brunellos represent a seriously delicious selection of wines, no matter how they’re...
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How Much Italian Wine Should You Drink to Make Your Canceled Italy Trip Hurt Less?
How Much Italian Wine Should You Drink to Make Your Canceled Italy Trip Hurt Less?
by Kristin Tice Studeman Can drinking a delicious glass of Tuscan wine soothe the sting of a canceled trip to Florence? Here’s one way to find out. Kristin Tice Studeman, writer, wine enthusiast, and founder of The Rosé Project, shares a few of her favorite bottles from the beloved Italian region. YOUR HOUSE - Open up a good bottle of wine from Tuscany and you can quite literally taste the picturesque, rolling hillsides and coastal breeze from the comforts of your own home. We so easily forget that good wine can be wonderfully transporting — each bottle tells a story about the place it...
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Global Traveler Magazine: A Tuscan Tradition – Featuring Biondi-Santi
Global Traveler Magazine: A Tuscan Tradition – Featuring Biondi-Santi
After Seven Generations, Biondi-Santi continues to make magnificent wines "It began in the late 1800s, with Ferruccio Biondi Santi, who built on the work begun by his grandfather, Clemente Santi, and produced the first Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino. Today, seven generations later, the Biondi Santi family still produces the wine at its Tenuta Greppo estate in the Montalcino commune of Tuscany..."
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The Wine Advocate: My Visit to Biondi-Santi
The Wine Advocate: My Visit to Biondi-Santi
Published July 31, 2019 By Monica Larner I set off to my appointment at Il Greppo, the venerated home of Biondi-Santi. This historic estate was recently sold to France’s luxury goods firm Européenne de Participations Industrielles (EPI), and the new owners initially put in a French general manger to oversee the estate. For whatever reason, that didn’t work out. The Frenchman was replaced by an Italian—more pointedly, a Tuscan native who came to Montalcino after years as a very successful manager at Frescobaldi. This visit gave me my first opportunity to meet and spend some time with incoming General...
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