Biondi-Santi Il Greppo Brunello di Montalcino DOCG Riserva

Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, Italy

Biondi-Santi is Brunello's founding estate — the family that first classified Sangiovese Grosso as Brunello and petitioned for DOCG status. The Il Greppo Riserva is produced only in the finest years from the estate's oldest vines (some over 100 years), spending 36 months in large Slavonian casks. The wine is built for patient collectors: decades of development from a starting point of restrained red fruit, iron mineral, and dried rose that slowly evolves into extraordinary aromatic complexity.

Pairing intelligence

• main: The Tuscan tile-kiln workers' stew — beef slow-cooked for hours with black pepper in Brunello — is the most literal possible Brunello pairing; the pepper and wine flavours in the preparation mirror the glass
• main: Wild boar is the iconic Tuscan game preparation — the agrodolce's sweet-sour balance provides the tonal contrast that Brunello's austere structure and dried fruit needs to soften