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Rosso di Montalcino “Greppo” DOC 2020
The Rosso di Montalcino comes from slightly younger Brunello vines and is matured for 12 months in large oak barrels. It undoubtedly bears the signature of the top winery Biondi Santi: delicately sweet, open flavours of red berries, flowers and cloves. Like all of the winery's other wines, the Rosso is classic and firm in style, with a bombastic structure and a brilliant, long finish. True to the house, it also has a long ageing and maturation potential and can compete with some of the Brunello wines of the appellation today and in the future. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 12 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2037+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,65 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,92 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,30 g/l
- Sulfite: 72 mg/l
- pH value: 3,42
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contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino “Greppo” DOCG 2018
Medium-light ruby red colour. Very open and graceful nose of red fruits, violets, tobacco, rose petals and some thyme. Full and juicy on the palate, with a beautiful finish and subtle extract sweetness, expansively harmonious with a pleasant freshness and hints of pomegranate, pepper and sour cherry. Long-lasting with great depth, well-dosed tannins and fresh acidity - made for a long life in all its facets, but already very accessible today. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 36 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2050+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,88 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,69 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,55 g/l
- Sulfite: 77 mg/l
- pH value: 3,38
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Limitation of 3 articles per customerBrunello di Montalcino “Greppo” Riserva DOCG 2011
Lavish Brunello Riserva with a bouquet of sweet black cherries, frankincense, liquorice and tobacco. The 2011 vintage brings incredible depth, immense fullness and a great personality. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 42 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2045+
- Closure: Natural cork
- Total extract: 29,20 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,50 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,10 g/l
- pH value: 3,20
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino “Greppo” DOCG 2016 · MAGNUM in OWC
When a Brunello that is exceptional almost every year comes from an exceptional vintage, then this is what you can expect: classic Sangiovese interpretation with a wonderful balance of elegance and power. Very firm, dark fruit, fine-grained tannin and a well-dosed acid wire. As it progresses, it opens up with a wealth of aromas of wild berries, violets and freshly ploughed earth. A magical wine with a long life and great potential that is already apparent. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 36 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2050+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,65 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,23 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,49 g/l
- Sulfite: 75 mg/l
- pH value: 3,30
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino “Greppo” Riserva DOCG 2015
For Biondi Santis Riserva, the fruits of the oldest vines of Il Greppo (30 years and older) are used, the wine matures for three years in traditional oak barrels. On the nose, initially fine aromas of wild berries, blue flowers, eucalyptus and lightly grilled smoke. The intensity increases in small steps. With time, the wine is magnificent and focused, with a very direct and impressive presentation of its aromas. The wine leaves a lasting impression in the mouth, thanks to the textural tautness of its tannins and the refreshing crispness of the acidity, finally showing more power, volume and persistence than expected on the long final. Subtle and big! SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 36 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 14,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2052+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 30,25 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,20 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,50 g/l
- Sulfite: 75 mg/l
- pH value: 3,26
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino “Greppo” Riserva DOCG 2012
"I have always preferred balanced wines and wines with a special character. Wines that have a balanced relationship between body, smell, tannins and acidity. Old and also very old wines that have matured without losing their characteristic features. Wines that reflect the tradition of the wine-growing area and the local diversity". Franco Biondi SantiOnly 38 vintages of Brunello di Montalcino Riserva have been available since 1888 - 24 of which were produced under the direction of Franco Biondi Santi. 2012 Riserva is the last vintage supervised and dedicated to Franco himself. A milestone in the history of Biondi Santi. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 42 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2050+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,85 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,50 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,70 g/l
- Sulfite: 79 mg/l
- pH value: 3,31
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino “Greppo” Riserva DOCG 2013
Energy and elegance are the hallmarks of the 2013 Brunello vintage. The top wines are stunning, with a vibrancy that is missing in many of the muscular, approachable and higher alcohol Brunellos from recent vintages. However, the 2013s will also require some patience to reach their maximum potential. In contrast to the extremely warm, dry years that have become the norm in Montalcino since the mid-1990s (the exceptions being 1998, 2002 and 2005), the 2013 vintage was a reminiscence of the past. It was a cool year with lots of rain in spring and the first half of summer.
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 42 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2051+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 30,15 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,10 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,40 g/l
- Sulfite: 78 mg/l
- pH value: 3,28
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino “Greppo” Riserva DOCG 1998
Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 1998 comes from a vintage that initially attracted little attention but is now in full bloom and is an outstanding example of the ageing ability of Biondi Santi's wines.
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 42 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2043+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,55 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,90 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,40 g/l
- Sulfite: 78 mg/l
- pH value: 3,42
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino “Greppo” Riserva DOCG 1998 · 0,75l in OWC
Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 1998 comes from a vintage that initially attracted little attention but is now in full bloom and is an outstanding example of the ageing ability of Biondi Santi's wines.
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 42 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2043+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,55 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,90 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,40 g/l
- Sulfite: 78 mg/l
- pH value: 3,42
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Limitation of 1 articles per customerBrunello di Montalcino “Greppo” Riserva DOCG 1997 · 0,75l in OWC
Greppo Riserva from the absolute top year 1997 - newly corked, as Biondi Santi does every 20 years also on behalf of customers - smells of flowers, licorice, red berries and spices. Elegance and perfection at the palate, long, supple, juicy up to the endless final. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 42 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2042+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,10 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,70 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,10 g/l
- pH value: 3,45
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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Brunello di Montalcino “Greppo” DOCG 2018 · 6 bottles in OWC
Medium-light ruby red colour. Very open and graceful nose of red fruits, violets, tobacco, rose petals and some thyme. Full and juicy on the palate, with a beautiful finish and subtle extract sweetness, expansively harmonious with a pleasant freshness and hints of pomegranate, pepper and sour cherry. Long-lasting with great depth, well-dosed tannins and fresh acidity - made for a long life in all its facets, but already very accessible today. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Sangiovese
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 36 months wooden barrel
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 13,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2050+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 29,88 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,69 g/l
- Residual sugar: 0,55 g/l
- Sulfite: 77 mg/l
- pH value: 3,38
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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In 1888, Ferruccio Biondi Santi created the famous Brunello di Montalcino, modelled on the Barolo of the time, out of a brilliant intuition. This was a revolution, as in the rest of Tuscany no wine was made from a single grape variety. Founded by Ferruccio's grandfather Clemente Biondi Santi in 1840, the traditional Il Greppo winery, located south-east of Montalcino, has long been regarded as a magical place. Even older vintages from the estate are among the jewels of Italian viticulture. Stylistically perfect elegance, with restrained acidity when young - these are the characteristics that allow the fine wines to age beautifully.
The estate remained the only bottler of Brunello until the 1950s. When a boom began in the 1980s, the wines were almost forgotten for decades due to the large number of new interpretations of the old wine. In the 1990s, the company also had to contend with fungal infestation in the vineyards. There were also disputes between Franco and Jacopo, who would have preferred to make the Greppo wines in a much more modern style than his father. At the beginning of the new millennium, Tenuta Il Greppo returned to its old form
The passion and care with which Tenuta Il Greppo dedicates itself to the production of an outstanding traditional Brunello remains unbroken to this day. Until 2017, the winery was managed by Jacopo Biondi Santi, after his father Franco, great-grandson of Ferruccio and a fascinating personality with a distinguished demeanour, died in 2013 at the age of 91. Even today, the winery still benefits from Ferruccio's extensive experience in clonal selection. Only Sangiovese Grosso di Montalcino saplings are used in the vineyards. The grapes are selected according to criteria based on the results of in-house analyses. In the estate's cellar, very old, huge barrels stand next to ten or 40 hectolitre containers, some of which are new. SUPERIORE.DE
"A visit to the winery is something of an old ritual: you take in the place in peace and quiet and are confronted with all kinds of memories - of the vintages, but also of the people who made history here." Gambero Rosso
"With Christopher Descours, the owner of the champagne houses Charles Heidsieck and Piper-Heidsieck is acquiring a majority stake in the winery that single-handedly invented Brunello in the second half of the 19th century via his holding company Européenne de Participations Industrielles. Jacopo Biondi Santi and his son Tancredi will retain operational management of the winery, but the move must be seen as a consequence of the death of Franco Biondi Santi. The grand old man of Brunello passed away in April 2013 at the age of 91. His son Jacopo is now hoping that the liaison with the champagne house will lead to a transfer of expertise, particularly in terms of marketing." Falstaff
Facts
- Year founded: 1888
- Owner: majority Christopher Descours (EPI)
- Oenologist: Jacopo Biondi Santi
- Annual production: approx. 80,000 bottles
- Vineyard area: approx. 25 hectares
- Natural cultivation