Pian dell’Orino is 15-acre estate in Montalcino. It is owned by Caroline Pobitzer and Jan Hendrik Erbach. Caroline grew up in northern Italy and Jan is an oenologist who was born and raised in Germany. Together they run the estate. The flagship wine is Brunello di Montalcino though Pian dell’Orino also makes a Rosso di Montalcino and Piandorino, a Sangiovese. Wine Advocate rated a recent vintage of the Brunello at 97 pts and wrote that “it is hard to imagine how much Jan Erbach and Caroline Pobitzer have accomplished in just a few years. Erbach and Pobitzer embody the same adventurous, risk-taking ethos one rarely sees in Montalcino, but which is much more common among top-flight, artisan growers in Burgundy, Piedmont and Champagne….”