Terralsole was founded in 1996 by Mario Bollag, a Swiss-born entrepreneur and adventurer who worked as a ski instructor in California, and a pilot in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean before starting his own San Francisco-based tour business. But a stint as an art student in Florence decades earlier left him longing for northern Italy, and in the 1990s he bought a farmhouse and property just outside of Montalcino and started producing Brunello. Wine Enthusiast has called Terralsole’s Brunellos “modern and deeply layered…” and rated them in the mid-90s.