Marchesi Antinori Winery

The Marchesi Antinori family is the archetypal wine dynasty. Not only can it look back on more than 600 years of history and 26 generations of winegrowing, but also on a large selection of its own estates.

These include nine wineries in Tuscany, the home of the Marchese, seven other Italian wineries from Prunotto in Piedmont to Tormaresca in Apulia, as well as Antica in Napa Valley and Haras del Pirque in Chile.

The most important Tuscan wineries are certainly Tenuta Tignanello, Tenuta Guado al Tasso, Pian delle Vigne and Villa Antinori.

Giovanni di Piero Antinori, who joined the Florentine guild of winemakers and wine merchants in 1385, marked the beginning of an era that today, 26 generations later, is more successful than ever before with Albiera, Allegra and Alessia. The foundations of today's success were laid by the father of the three women, Marchese Piero Antinori. Piero and his congenial oenologist Giacomo Tachis became the visionaries of modern Italian viticulture. With Piero's uncle Nicolò Incisa della Rochetta's "Sassicaia" and their own "Tignanello", they invented the type of "Super Tuscan" that brought top Italian wines to international wine lists for the first time from the 1970s onwards. As a result, Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino and the wines of Maremma also became increasingly successful. In the course of their success, the Antinori family founded an empire that is unrivalled and finds its most beautiful expression in the mixture of self-confidence and noble restraint in the new state of the art winery pictured here.

photos: Marchesi Antinori