Ragazzi, siamo alla frutta…
“Merlot di Montalcino”
Starring Federico Marconi.
With a special appearance by Jeremy Parzen.
Directed by Edoardo Bianchi.
With music by Calvino di Maggio.
Do Bianchi
Negotiating the epistemologic implications of italocentric oenophilia.
Do Bianchi 
great song calvino, really captures the mood…sad day!!
I know my wine teacher, who proudly spoke of the “King of the Tuscan Grapes,” must be in fits. I can hear him now, “Eh, what I should to do?! Eez a crazy.”
On Decanter.com Franco Biondi Santi, Montalcino’s eminence and flag, has declared that not changed his position since he said nearly three years ago that blended Rosso di Montalcino could work.
In http://www.decanter.com/news/wine-news/529230/outrage-as-montalcino-proposes-blended-rosso: “In some areas the vine excels, in others it simply does not”, he said. “Rather than change Brunello, we should think about allowing other red grapes, grown within the denomination, to Rosso di Montalcino”.
And in http://www.decanter.com/news/wine-news/529244/biondi-santi-nardi-hint-at-yes-vote-in-montalcino: “Since I know the land of Montalcino very well,” he emailed Decanter.com yesterday (1 september), “I can confirm that small additions of other vines (Merlot, etc…) could balance the wine in small percentages”.
I apologize in behalf of all the true believers in the unduplicable soul of the Sangiovese from Montalcino…
Yes Tracy, it is a sad moment indeed…