Jacopo Biondi Santi Castello di Montepò Morellino di Scansano 2021

One of the greatest Italian wine values of all time, in our estimation: Biondi Santi’s famed Sangiovese BBS11 clone, grown on their Castello di Montepò estate in Tuscany. Listen to this 95 point review… 

“The 2021 Morellino di Scansano from Jacopo Biondi Santi is a stellar wine at this stage, tasted in late June 2025. Supremely structured, it opens with tart cherry fruit, rich tobacco and cigar box notes, loamy earth, and elegant dark forest character. Salted dark chocolate and soaring, superfine tannins are beautifully knit together, leading to a finish of elegant ironstone minerality, subtle black olive, and rich mahogany wood, all carried by a lengthy, cherry-fruit-driven close.”
–95 points, Decanter

We are so proud to bring you this bottle, and all we really need to add to that glowing review – before you jump to your cart – is how incredibly smooth this is! If you like a red as soft and deep as the silk velvet they still make in Genoa, this is for you. Biondi Santi designed the Morellino di Scansano to be an approachable entry to their lineup, both in terms of mouthfeel and price. Easy to drink, yes, but impeccable quality reigns supreme here. With a focused, handsome energy and the exquisitely earthy indulgence of a molten Amedei chocolate cake, this is darn near life-changing for the price.

The fruit was grown in the Maremma region, a little over 10 miles from the Mediterranean Sea, under the watch of the stunning Castello di Montepò – an imposing 11th-century castle set high on a hill overlooking a 600-hectare estate on pristine galestro soils (120 hectares planted). Jacopo Biondi-Santi bought the site in the early 1980s as a side project, which ended up working out well, because it became the ideal new locus after the family sold their famed Tenuta Greppo site in Montalcino, where they’d been making Brunello since the late 1800s. 

In this 2021, the family’s exclusive and prized Sangiovese clone is beautifully shown off with a  touch of estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignon for additional textural richness. Jacopo makes the wine alongside his son, Tancredi, and their small team. This is a supple, expressive, utterly pure iteration from one of the least crowded parts of Tuscany – and most up-and-coming in terms of wine. Whether you have this with a kitchen labor-of-love arista di maiale – slow-roasted pork loin stuffed with garlic, rosemary, and fennel pollen – or just a really good sausage-mushroom pizza, you must have this.