Brunello di Montalcino Montalcino

The Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino was created in 1967 immediately after the issuance of the D.O.C. as a voluntary association of producers who were seeking to foster the steadily increasing prestige of their wine. The Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino has shown itself in the intervening years to be a scrupulous and responsible instrument of self-discipline. I has also served as a catalyst for new and old, large and small estates so that sensible customs, consolidated, became a common strategy for success in terms of quality.

Like an island in the heart of Tuscany, the hill of Montalcino offers to those who ascend from the valleys surrounding it the feeling of a gradual conquest, the sense of arriving in a snug harbour.
Perhaps, because of its geographical position, far from the crowded highways, or, perhaps, because of the purity of the air of a environment that is still intact and wild, Montalcino provides a host of stimuli for the imaginations of those who visit it, involving them in that magical relation between man and nature that, here, has the rare quality of being absolutely spontaneous.
The people of this town have always been devoted to the labours of wood and field. But they have also enjoyed moments of proud glory as during the struggle  for communal liberty in the 16th century, when they long resisted the besieging armies of Spain and France.
But certainly the best image of Montalcino is revealed primarily by wine, the most precious gift of a land that is at the same time hard and generous. Already widely appreciated in past centuries, the oenological production had, even here, remained faithful to the canons of proven reliability of Tuscan tradition. It was only toward the end of last century 
that the first experiments where begun in order to improve and exalt the characteristics of a raw material  and an environment no doubt quite special.
Thus was born Brunello, as it is still created today, the fruit of a tenacious dedication, of loving watchfulness during the years of ageing in the winery before it is presented  to a world that has learned, in its turn, to love it. 
It is the end and beginning of a legend that each bottle renews.