"Donna Olga is at the highest elevation on the Mountain (Montalcino). It is very densely planted so each vine yields very little giving the wine more density. This wine itself is worth $100.00. I believe that there is not a Brunello better!" -James Suckling

Olga Peluso Centolani (pictured above) –known as Donna Olga by wine lovers and Lady O by her more jesting colleagues –at the age of twelve bought a bottle of fine wine in Burgundy as a gift for her father. A gift that risked costing her a lot! “For a child it was a bit of an overstated gift, I recognise that,” she says, “but I wanted it so much, so I bought it, ran out of money and in order to be able to afford the train ticket home, my friends passed around a hat.”

Blessed youth or a sign of the future that awaited her? The fact is that in the meantime, the girl with origins from Naples on her father’s side and Ferrara on her mother’s, has honed her passion for high-quality wine over the decades spent in contact with world-famous agronomists and oenologists. She then chose Tuscany as her heartland, taking on the responsibility of managing the entire production cycle from the vineyard to the wine of the family estates and became a leading entrepreneur of Brunello di Montalcino, one of the most loved and appreciated Italian wines around the world. But of Burgundy, she has never forgotten the concept of terroir and even more that of Cru, on which she has based the choice of distinguishing the production philosophies of her two estates.