Jacopo Biondi Santi Castello di Montepò Cru 2020 (3-Pack Horizontal)

The storied Biondi-Santi family is back at it – arriving with three new single Crus from the glorious Castello di Montepò estate in Maremma, Toscana. We’ve got 3-packs of a 98-point Sangiovese, a 97-point Sangiovese, and a 96-point Cabernet Sauvignon – all for $75 off full retail, with shipping included – from the iconic, historic Italian royalty that is Biondi-Santi?! Be still, my heart! This is only the second-ever vintage of these wines, making them perhaps the most collectible new Italian wine to hit the market in quite some time!

This 3-pack will include 1 bottle of each for $750 total (that’s $75 in savings!), ground shipping included:

Castello di Montepò by Jacopo Biondi Santi BBS11 Maceone Toscana 2020 (DC98)

Castello di Montepò by Jacopo Biondi Santi BBS11 Poggio Ferro Toscana 2020 (DC97)

Castello di Montepò by Jacopo Biondi Santi Fontecanese Toscana 2020 (DC96)

The Biondi-Santi family sold their shares of their namesake Montalcino winery back in 2018 – perhaps the most storied winery in Italian history and the literal founding place of Brunello di Montalcino – and this was their swift and smart next move! Castello di Montepò is the family’s 11th-century castle, set high on a hill, overlooking a jaw-dropping 600-hectare estate, a little over 10 miles from the Mediterranean Sea, and just about 20 miles south of the family’s origins in Montalcino. Jacopo Biondi Santi – at the helm of his family’s illustrious winery for decades – bought the Castello di Montepò in the early ‘80s, meticulously planting over 120 acres mostly to his family’s completely unique and prized Sangiovese BBS11 clone, with some Cabernet Sauvignon and a small parcel of Merlot, as well.

Unlike Montalcino’s 250-plus producers today – Montepò is one of only a handful of producers in the Maremma region, which also has little of the tourism and infrastructure enjoyed by wineries in Montalcino or Chianti Classico. Jacopo and his son, Tancredi, make the wines hand-in-hand, and they speak about the potential of Maremma, specifically here in Scansano, as though they traveled back in time to Montalcino over 50 years ago. When the founders of one of the world’s greatest estates, in Italy’s most popular region, tell you that THIS estate and THIS region could well be the next in line... you listen.

Watch these prices skyrocket around the world over the next decade, and then you can come back and thank us for acting now! Each cru is 100% of a single varietal, grown on a series of unique soils scattered across the property, and each bottling absolutely stunned every one of us on First Bottle’s tasting team. The stunning wines have only gotten better and better, with literal decades of prime drinking to come! We’ve spent hours touring the vineyards ourselves, and the diversity of soils, the micro-climates, the vines – it is impossible not to be impressed. Throw on a magnificent ancient stone castle – that houses the winery, the cellar, and the residence of the Biondi-Santi family – overlooking all, and it truly doesn’t get better.

They’ve spent over 30 years farming this estate, making a series of exploratory wines, and conducting non-stop experiments both in the cellars and in the vineyards, to pinpoint these three Crus – the very best expressions of Castello di Montepò. It took three decades plus for this untapped land to flourish, and the undivided attention of Tancredi, Jacopo, and their team to fully understand what this land is... as well as what it can be. In my book, it is already one of the greatest estates in Italy – and it’s just getting started. If you add these to your collection, you’ll be amazed at what these beauties do over time. Tuscany simply doesn’t get much better than this!

We’re thrilled to have access to these incredibly pure expressions of Italy – through the lens of its most historic wine family. It simply doesn’t get more collectible than this – so grab yourself a 3-pack and become a part of the newest chapter in the iconic Biondi-Santi family’s history!