Rosso di Montalcino 2020

BIONDI-SANTI

Rosso di Montalcino
2020

Country
Italy
Regulated designation
Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC)
Region
Tuscany
Appellation
Rosso di Montalcino
Varietal(s)
Sangiovese grosso
Colour
Red
Sugar
Dry
Producer's website
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About this winery

Biondi-Santi is synonymous with Brunello di Montalcino. Ferruccio Biondi-Santi first produced and bottled Brunello di Montalcino in 1865, using a superior clone of Sangiovese selected by his grandfather, Clemente Santi. Clemente had been experimenting with new winemaking methods and identifying vines capable of producing wines of exceptional quality. In the years that followed, Ferruccio’s Brunello earned significant international recognition. For decades, the Biondi-Santi family remained the...

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Press reviews

Wine Advocate

- 94 points -

Monica Larner, November 2024 (Vintage 2020)

The Biondi-Santi 2020 Rosso di Montalcino is a very expressive and generous wine with perfumed aromas of softly fragrant heritage rose, violet, redcurrant and rosemary essence. Those herbal notes come out nicely in this vintage, and there is elegantly chalky tannin to close. This vintage saw rain in June and higher temperatures later in the summer. This wine is drinking beautifully now and offers a pleasantly immediate drinking style.

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Jeb Dunnuck

- 94 points -

January 2025 (Vintage 2021)

The 2021 Rosso Di Montalcino was bottled in 2023 and is going to be released in May or June of 2025. Taking on a bit more pigment in this vintage and pouring a ruby/red color, it opens to aromas of darker berries, ripe black cherries, crushed herbs, violets, and rocky earth. The palate has good extract, concentration, and sapidity, with very nice elegance, ripe tannins, and a mouthwatering, crunchy finish. This structured Rosso will age well over the coming 12-15 years.

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James Suckling

- 93 points -

September 2023 (Vintage 2020)

Generous aromas of ripe strawberries and cherries, turning to flowers and stones with some crushed cement. Medium body with firm tannins that fill the mouth, as well as lively acidity and depth of fruit. Savory and almost salty at the end.

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Jeb Dunnuck

- 93 points -

February 2024 (Vintage 2020)

Released in June 2023, the medium red 2020 Rosso Di Montalcino is open aromatically already at this stage, revealing notes of ripe red cherries along with a very pretty floral perfume of fresh flowers and wild fresh herbs. Medium-bodied and rounded, with a very elegant feel, sweet, fine tannins, and a pleasing fresh ripeness, it’s a lovely wine with a lot of charm now. It has very clean fruit aromas and profile, with an open feel and a lovely sanguine mineral tone of the finish. This is going to be a Rosso with a wide window of drinking over the coming 8-10 years.

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Vinous

- 93 points -

November 2023 (Vintage 2020)

The 2020 Rosso di Montalcino is simply stunning, lifting from the glass with vivid raspberry and cherry notes complemented by sweet rose, clove and cedar. This model of purity is silky and refined, with a dusty feel to its ripe red berry fruits. Orange notes adds contrast toward the close. It finishes structured and long, still remarkably pure, with a slightly bitter tinge that slowly fades. This fabulous Rosso from Biondi-Santi shows the work done over the past years.

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Vinous

92+ Points

July 2024 (Vintage 2021)

Distinctly savory, the 2021 Rosso di Montalcino wafts up with a dark and earthy blend of flowery underbrush and balsam herbs, giving way to dried black cherries. This is surprisingly energetic and spry, with depths of tart red berry fruits enlivened by a core of zesty acidity. Its minerality comes forward through the finish, mixing with nuances of lavender and plum. The 2021 tapers off structured and long yet still remarkably fresh. This is a Rosso who dreamt of being a Brunello. Very nice.

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Wine Advocate

95+ Points

Monica Larner, November 2024 (Vintage 2021)

This is an epic vintage that has been expertly interpreted by the Biondi-Santi winemaking team. The 2021 Rosso di Montalcino has impressive complexity and finesse, the result of many complicated blending decisions. The wine remains on the shy side at the moment and will need a few more years of bottle age before its full bouquet comes into focus. The wine is essentially linear and sharp with firm structure, seething energy and bright red fruit. The vintage was warm, dry and luminous. The Sangiovese harvest started on the 9th of September.

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