Biondi-Santi
- Red
- Italy
- Brunello di Montalcino
- Sangiovese
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 48
- Community notes
- 500
- Merchant offers
- 271
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 98/ 1002019 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 91/ 100500 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £133per 75 cl2016 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
- Drinking window
- 2015–2030peak2005 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 1,539 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Brunello.
- Body3.2 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.8 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.6 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · leather, earthy, mushroom, balsamic, minerals
- Oak · tobacco, oak, chocolate, vanilla, cedar
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, cranberry
- Black fruit · plum, black cherry, blackberry, blackcurrant, dark fruit
- Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, cinnamon, savory
- Floral · violet, dried flowers, perfume, rose petal, dried rose
Grapes: Sangiovese. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
1967One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2016
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2020unit not stated
- 201998criticunit not stated
- 201895criticunit not stated
- 201795criticunit not stated
- 201697critic£133 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
- 201597critic£98 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 201395critic£133 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- 201292critic£114 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2021
- 201193critic£72 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017
- 201096critic£103 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025
- 200992critic£117 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
- 200893critic£145 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, October 2022
- 200795critic£136 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024
- 200694critic£77 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, December 2017
- 200594critic£78 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2019
- 200495critic
- 200187criticunit not stated
- 200091criticunit not stated
- 199997drinkersunit not stated
- 1998unit not stated
- 199793critic£248 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 199591drinkers
- 1994unit not stated
- 1993unit not stated
- 1991£216 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2019
- 199085critic£188 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2018
- 198889drinkersunit not stated
- 1987£90 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018
- 1986unit not stated
- 1985£168 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017
- 198391critic£116 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017
- 1981£72 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2015
- 1980unit not stated
- 1979unit not stated
- 1978unit not stated
- 1977unit not stated
- 197596critic£217 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- 1974£123 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, August 2019
- 1971unit not stated
- 197088drinkersunit not stated
- 1968£135 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, May 2018
- 1967£233 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2018
- 1958unit not stated
- 1951unit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2019
- 98 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2004
- peak, window 2016–2034
- Lowest price
- 2011
- £72 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | £133 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026 |
| 2015 | £98 | 96.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2013 | £133 | 95.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026 |
| 2012 | £114 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2021 |
| 2011 | £72 | 93.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017 |
| 2010 | £103 | 95.6 | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025 |
| 2009 | £117 | 91.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025 |
| 2008 | £145 | 92.5 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2022 |
| 2007 | £136 | 94.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024 |
| 2006 | £77 | 94.3 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2017 |
| 2005 | £78 | 94 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2019 |
| 1997 | £248 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 1991 | £216 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2019 |
| 1990 | £188 | 85 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2018 |
| 1987 | £90 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018 |
| 1985 | £168 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017 |
| 1983 | £116 | 91 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017 |
| 1981 | £72 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2015 |
| 1975 | £217 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026 |
| 1974 | £123 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2019 |
| 1968 | £135 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2018 |
| 1967 | £233 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2018 |
Where to go next
LWIN 1157327