There is no bigger name in Brunello than that of Biondi-Santi. They are perhaps the only winery/family in the world which actually “invented” a wine, the much loved Brunello di Montalcino. Founded back in the mid-1800s, for a long while, they were the only winery in this part of Tuscany, where they made some of Italy’s best wines. They were very much part of the reason that, in 1980, the region, along with three others, was the first in Italy to receive DOCG status.