Biondi Santi Tenuta Greppo - Brunello Di Montalcino Riserva 1970

First produced in 1888, Biondi-Santi Riserva was the first Brunello di Montalcino in history, and even today it is an extraordinary event when a new vintage of Riserva is announced at Tenuta Greppo, the Biondi-Santi winery. Renowned for its extraordinary longevity, this rare wine has been released only 40 times from 1888 to the present and each production is extremely limited.

Riserva is traditionally produced with grapes coming only from the oldest vineyards, over 25 years of age. In the center of the Tenuta Greppo cellar there is a dark room, hidden from the world, dedicated precisely to the Reserve. It is “La Storica”, the estate's wine shop where Biondi-Santi carefully refines the bottles of every Riserva vintage ever produced. “La Storica” is an intimate place where the bottles lie neatly stacked in small cells divided by vintage, naked, wearing only a drop of beeswax to seal the cork and minimize oxidation.

The Reserve will be collected by La Storica only at the time of sale. It is then dressed with the original label of its vintage, including “the lunette” – the neck label which shows the number of each bottle, and the date of departure from the cellar is handwritten on the back label. If a Reserve has been topped up and re-capped in the past, a special topping-up certificate will be affixed to the neck, which certifies when this delicate reconditioning took place.

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