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Pairs of Great Wines #4: Biondi-Santi & Biondi-Santi

Pairs of Great Wines #4: Biondi-Santi & Biondi-Santi

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Fredric Koeppel
Mar 08, 2012
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The tale has often been told about how the wine we known as Brunello di Montalcino was created by Ferruccio Biondi-Santi (pictured at

right) on his Tuscan estate Il Greppo and first bottled in 1888. The family was the only producer of Brunello di Montalcino until after World War II and had, in fact, released the wine only in 1888, 1891, 1925 and 1945, a …

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