Estate Wine Brokers is thrilled to present a new single-owner collection of exceptional diversity and provenance. Starting in the 1980s, this collector began traveling to many of the world's top wine regions, amassing a large and varied collection th

The wines of Brunello di Montalcino owe their existence to a single family: the Biondi-Santis, who in the 19th century isolated the BBS-11 or “Brunello di Biondi-Santi” clone of Sangiovese that became the basis of the appellation. However, it was Fr

The Biondi-Santi family is credited with isolating the BBS11 clone of Sangiovese that led to the creation of the Brunello di Montalcino DOCG in the late 19th century, and to this day, the estate produces some of the most rigorously traditio

In the fine wine marketplace, fraud is not limited to scurrilous collectors and resellers - as we will see below, winemakers themselves can perpetrate fraud on a grand scale:In 2008, six individuals were indicted on criminal charges in Italy in a