Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino Riserva
- Red
- Italy
- Brunello di Montalcino
- Sangiovese
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 39
- Community notes
- 274
- Merchant offers
- 259
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 99/ 1002019 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 94/ 100274 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £430per 75 cl2019 vintage · 3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
- Drinking window
- 2015–2025past its window1968 · 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 251 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Brunello.
- Body3.2 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.8 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.6 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · leather, mushroom, earthy, balsamic, smoke
- Oak · tobacco, oak, coffee, cedar, chocolate
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, strawberry, raspberry, red cherry
- Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, savory, cinnamon
- Black fruit · plum, blackcurrant, jam, blackberry, black cherry
- Citrus · orange, orange peel, orange zest, lemon, orange rind
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.
1961One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
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.
- 201999critic£430 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
- 201898critic£55 / 75cl1500 ml shop ask, September 2026
- 201697criticunit not stated
- 201598critic£478 / 75cl1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2022
- 201398critic£293 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
- 201298critic£370 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2023
- 201193criticunit not stated
- 201096critic£294 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- 200894critic£526 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 200794critic£615 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 200695critic£548 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
- 200495critic£364 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2021
- 200195critic£275 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, November 2016
- 1999unit not stated
- 199888criticunit not stated
- 199795critic£334 / 75cl2-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
- 199592drinkers£277 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
- 1993unit not stated
- 1990unit not stated
- 1988unit not stated
- 198597critic£533 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- 198397critic£303 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016
- 1982unit not stated
- 1981£224 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, June 2016
- 197790drinkers
- 197595critic£327 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
- 197195criticunit not stated
- 197089critic£323 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, December 2016
- 196994criticunit not stated
- 196894critic
- 1967£197 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016
- 196496critic£450 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018
- 1961£300 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2018
- 1957unit not stated
- 195596critic
- 1946unit not stated
- 1945unit not stated
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2019
- 99 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 1955
- drinking, window 2015–2026
- Lowest price
- 2018
- £55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £430 | 98.7 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026 |
| 2018 | £55 | 98 | — | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2015 | £478 | 97.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2022 |
| 2013 | £293 | 97.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025 |
| 2012 | £370 | 97.7 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2023 |
| 2010 | £294 | 95.9 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026 |
| 2008 | £526 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2007 | £615 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2006 | £548 | 95.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026 |
| 2004 | £364 | 95.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2021 |
| 2001 | £275 | 94.8 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2016 |
| 1997 | £334 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 2-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023 |
| 1995 | £277 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022 |
| 1985 | £533 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026 |
| 1983 | £303 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016 |
| 1981 | £224 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2016 |
| 1975 | £327 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025 |
| 1970 | £323 | 89 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2016 |
| 1967 | £197 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016 |
| 1964 | £450 | 96.3 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018 |
| 1961 | £300 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2018 |
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