Goodbye Franco Biondi Santi
With Franco Biondi Santi ends an era of Brunello’s history
Franco-Biondi-Santi
A courageous and tireless paladin for Sangiovese in Montalcino as a wine excellence, he has been protagonist of the success of Italian wine in the world.
After a brief illness he was first admitted in the Siena hospital and then in the Montalcino one, 3 days ago Franco Biondi Santi passed away.
The Biondi Santi’s are the family who for first and with great tenacity has affirmed the quality of Brunello as a wine with great virtue and apt for a long ageing. With their culture and elegance that has always characterized their life and friendships, the Biondi Santi’s, and especially Franco, have divulged Brunello as a wine of excellence destined to a restricted number of wine estimators. A network of rapports which has widened, opening up the way for the diffusion of Brunello all over the world.
The news of his departure, which spread during the first day of the Vinitaly fair, has deeply grieved the Brunello producers, who now think of him with regret and gratefulness.
Goodbye dear Franco we are already missing you.