<p><span>Ciacci Piccolomini d&rsquo;Aragona is a producer renowned for compelling expressions of forceful Brunello, a trickle of which comes to Australian shores. The trickle was reduced to a drop by the critical pronouncement of 2015 as among the very finest Brunello vintages to date. Soaring demand among Italian wine lovers and fine wine collectors alike ensued.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span>Ciacci Piccolomini is steeped in an aristocratic history dating from the 17th century, belied by the agrarian roots of the wines and their humble makers, a family of farmers to which the entire estate was bequeathed as recently as 1985. It was Countess Ciacci who gifted her propitiously situated 220-hectare estate, on the south-east hillside of Montalcino, to her beloved farm-hand, Giuseppe Bianchini.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span>Today, his children Paolo and Lu