Castello di Montepò
See the collections of Castello di Montepò
●Schidione 2011 - Castello di Montepò（Toscana）1500ml x 1btl
●Sassoalloro 2016 - Castello di Montepò（Toscana）1500ml x 1btl
●Sassoalloro - Castello di Montepò（Toscana）750ml x 6btl
At Castle of Montepò, Jacopo Biondi Santi saw the immense potential of an area born to produce excellent grapes.
Castello di Montepò is more than a prestigious name in the world of fine wine, above all it is a model, confirming the international reputation of Sangiovese among the wines of absolute excellence. To hold a bottle of Sassoalloro, one of the most prestigious wines obtained from the Sangiovese Grosso BBS11 clone, creates a particular kind of expectation, as it touches on many levels of experience at once. Starting with its elegant label, adorned by the family crests, which takes you back to a lost age of chivalric romance and legends.
But this is only the first step, although the public’s perception, to a certain extent, contributes to the creation of any masterpiece: a challenge, that of creating a memorable experience, which Jacopo Biondi Santi has taken up with courage and vigour, bringing into the new millennium a glorious family heritage, two centuries of almost legendary wine history.
The collection created by Jacopo Biondi Santi in the Castello di Montepò estate is not only a family of labels of great finesse, each one embodies a fragment, captured and bottled, of the most precious good that exists: time. Wines made to last, such as Schidione, to which Jacopo Biondi Santi, with all the spirit and initiative of his ancestors, was able to impart a personal and contemporary touch, channelling innovation in a world, that of Maremma and the countryside of Scansano, where the lands become legendary vineyards. It is with wines such as these the history of viticulture is written.
Jacopo Biondi Santi represents the sixth generation of a pioneering family of winemakers. Assisted by his children Tancredi, Clemente and Clio, he runs the estate of Castello di Montepò with all the enterprising spirit of his ancestors.
It is here, that the family’s own exclusive clone Sangiovese Grosso BBS11 has found the ideal terroir to express its celebrated character and longevity. As the designer of an ambitious project dedicated to wine enhancement and the preservation of native typicality, Jacopo Biondi Santi has undertaken an impressive microclimatic and paedological study of the soil of Castello di Montepò, located south of Grosseto on the parallel of the fortress of Talamone. A team of researchers, geologists, agronomists and oenologists has collected and analysed a wide range of data, compiling a complete and exhaustive profile of the estate’s terroir and finding it to be exceptionally suited to the production of wines of the highest finesse and quality. Combining intuition and scientific rigor, Jacopo Biondi Santi thus began to create a new family of fine wines, expressive of a true bond with their natural habitat. The 1991 harvest saw the birth of Sassoalloro, a bridge between past and future, the cornerstone of a new monovarietal interpretation of Sangiovese: a label of immediate readiness with all the longevity you expect from a great Tuscan wine. In 1993, the family’s time-honoured love for Sangiovese inspired Jacopo Biondi Santi to experiment by testing it in various blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, creating the first vintage of the company’s powerful Schidione, the emblem of the estate’s visionary and innovative philosophy.
Tancredi Biondi Santi carries, not only in his name, a family legacy founded on the pursuit of innovation and excellence in winemaking.Born in Siena, he completed his studies in viticulture and oenology in Florence, where he came to master the ideas, practices and techniques which would profoundly shape the pursuit of his vocation. Since his university years, Tancredi has worked in the family business, acting as the company’s chief international marketer and supporting his father Jacopo in the management of the estate. A passionate traveller and lover of different cultures, since 2017 he has forged a new course for Castello di Montepò, by completely redesigning its management structure and overseeing the Montepò 2030 project.
The Biondi Santi family has gained a special place in the history of Italian winemaking thanks to the lively and passionate inventiveness of its members. The roots of this brilliant adventure go back to the 1800s, when Ferruccio Biondi Santi planted the first Montalcino vineyard with vines of a selected Sangiovese clone, called Sangiovese Grosso or Brunello: it was the first step towards a new way of making wine that would soon become an international success.
Moved by the same curiosity and innovative spirit, his son Tancredi was one of the minds behind the creation of a disciplinary for the DOCG, as well as the first one to introduce the particular custom of topping up the ullage levels of older vintages to improve their longevity. His son Franco, at the helm of the family company for over 43-years, worked hard to further the reputation of Biondi Santi as an international standard-bearer for excellence in winemaking. An extraordinary wine heritage, the fruit of over a century and a half of history now in the capable hands of Franco’s son, Jacopo, who in the spirit of his ancestors has given life to new family of wines combining tradition and innovation.
●Schidione 2011 - Castello di Montepò（Toscana）1500ml x 1btl
●Sassoalloro 2016 - Castello di Montepò（Toscana）1500ml x 1btl