Museum of the Montalcino Community and Brunello

This heritage is made up of arts and crafts, ways of living, dressing, eating, and working, of small objects, postcards, prints, ox carts, and all the small or large things that have made up the life of our people for a thousand years.

Thanks also to the help of some experts in the history of our Community, who have worked on the study, conservation, and publication of documents and testimonies of our cultural heritage, it has been possible to realize our primary interest in this adventure: the safeguarding of the history of Montalcino which we Colombini, as producers of Montalcino wines and members of this community, have always considered vital.

The other component of the museum is the history of Brunello, with its two and a half centuries of documents and the more than two hundred companies that make up its current reality; we believe that documenting how this large enological and economic phenomenon was born, how it evolved, and what it is today is interesting not only for professionals but also for a wider audience.

The uniqueness of the Brunello phenomenon is given by the sum of some factors that many other wines may have, such as product quality, modern technology, and producers’ skills, plus others that only a handful of other lands in the world have, such as prestige, history, and legend.

The success achieved does not come only from undisputed skill and innovation capability; that “nothing” from which we started is a terrain made exceptionally fertile by everything that was done before. For this reason, we believe it is useful to give maximum emphasis to the history of the territory, its myths, the characters, and the companies that have built this past, because it is from them that the myth of Montalcino is made.