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Wine Description
The Story
Biondi-Santi also thinks that his Riserva is one of the world’s longest-lasting wines:
“Even though Italian wine legislation requires that Brunello be matured in barrels for two years and in bottles for four to six months, we allow our wine to age for five to six years before bottling. We traditionally use Slovenian barrels, which further enhance the longevity of the wine. Then we cellar the Brunello in bottles for at least another two years ...
Vintage 1977
The 1977 wine vintage in Italy was a highly challenging, poor, and mediocre year across most of the peninsula, as the country suffered under a cold, relentlessly wet, and sun-starved growing season. Persistent summer rains and an unseasonably chilly autumn blanketed primary interior regions like Piedmont and Tuscany, promoting widespread rot and preventing the grapes from achieving proper sugar concentration or phenolic maturity. The resulting...
