Seicentenario
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted wild boar, slow-braised beef short ribs, aged Pecorino Toscano cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
To celebrate six centuries of winemaking heritage dating back to 1385, the Antinori family created the legendary Seicentenario (meaning six-hundredth anniversary) from the historic 1985 vintage. This monumental, one-off cuvée was crafted as a tribute to twenty-six generations of dedication to Tuscan viticulture. Sourced from the family's finest estate vineyards in the Chianti Classico zone, most notably the prized parcels of Tignanello, this rare Vino da Tavola is a masterfully structured blend of Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon. Aged extensively in French oak barriques, the wine represents the peak of the Super Tuscan movement's golden era, combining the rustic soul and bright acidity of Sangiovese with the muscular structure and refined tannins of Cabernet Sauvignon. It remains one of the most collectible and historically significant bottlings in Italian wine history.
🍾 About the Producer
Marchesi Antinori is one of the world's most storied winemaking dynasties, tracing its commercial viticultural heritage to 1385 when Giovanni di Piero Antinori matriculated into Florence's Arte dei Vinattieri. Spanning twenty-six generations, the family revolutionized modern Italian viticulture under Marchese Piero Antinori and legendary enologist Giacomo Tachis, catalyzing the Super Tuscan revolution with the pioneering release of Tignanello in 1971. Antinori commands an unrivaled tapestry of microclimates across Central Italy, encompassing the galestro and albarese marls of Chianti Classico at Tenuta Tignanello and Badia a Passignano, the maritime gravels of Bolgheri at Guado al Tasso, and the fossiliferous clay-limestone soils of Umbria at Castello della Sala. In the cellar, CEO and chief enologist Renzo Cotarella orchestrates a balance of precision, clonal selection, and judicious French oak barrique maturation. Antinori's benchmark wines—including the Sangiovese-driven Tignanello, the Cabernet-dominated Solaia, and the benchmark Umbrian Chardonnay blend Cervaro della Sala—stand as definitive monuments of Italian winemaking refinement.
🍇 Grapes
Sangiovese (min 80%), Canaiolo, Colorino, Cabernet Sauvignon