Biondi-Santi
- Red
- Italy
- Rosso di Montalcino
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
- Sangiovese
- Canaiolo Nero
- Tracked vintages
- 12
- Community notes
- 411
- Merchant offers
- 108
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 83/ 100411 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £49per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
- Drinking window
- 2016–2026drinking2012 · 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 728 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Tuscan Red.
- Body3.1 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.1 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.4 / 5
- DrySweet
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, strawberry
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, chocolate, cedar
- Earth · leather, earthy, minerals, mushroom, smoke
- Spice · pepper, licorice, savory, cinnamon, dried herbs
- Black fruit · plum, black cherry, blackberry, blackcurrant, blueberry
- Floral · violet, perfume, rose petal, dried flowers, lilac
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sangiovese, Canaiolo Nero. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2000One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021
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.
- 2023unit not stated
- 202285drinkersunit not stated
- 202195critic£49 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
- 202094critic£48 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024
- 201992critic£50 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- 201892critic£95 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201792critic£43 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
- 201693critic£56 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022
- 201592critic£49 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021
- 201290critic
- 200087drinkers£31 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2021
- 95 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2012
- drinking, window 2016–2026
- Lowest price
- 2000
- £31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | £49 | 94.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024 |
| 2020 | £48 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024 |
| 2019 | £50 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026 |
| 2018 | £95 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2017 | £43 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022 |
| 2016 | £56 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022 |
| 2015 | £49 | 92.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021 |
| 2000 | £31 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017 |
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