Brunello di Montalcino is the first DOCG wine in Italy and is one of the most known Italian wines - if not the most known wine. Together with Barolo and Barbaresco from Piemonte and wines from the Bolgheri region, it belongs to the group of the finest Italian wines.
Montalcino has a long wine making history. From sources in the 16th. century it is told that Montalcino had good Vermiglio red wine and is known and famous for its sweet (white) wine made of the zibibbo grape. Around 1850 Giuseppe Anghirelli, Tito Costanti, Camillo Galassi and Clemente Santi began experimenting with different vinification methods and selecting clones - even though they did not know at that time what a clone was.