Superiore
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2029
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Bistecca alla Fiorentina (grilled T-bone steak), slow-braised wild boar ragu served over pappardelle pasta, and aged Pecorino Toscano cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Antinori family has been shaping the landscape of Tuscan winemaking since 1385, when Giovanni di Piero Antinori became a member of the Winemakers Guild. This Superiore bottling represents the pinnacle of their dedication to combining indigenous Tuscan traditions with innovative cellar practices. Sourced from estate vineyards characterized by galestro and alberese soils, this red wine typically showcases a masterful blend of Sangiovese alongside international varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Aged carefully in a combination of French and Hungarian oak barrels, it marries the vibrant, cherry-driven acidity of Tuscany with deep structure, velvety tannins, and complex notes of tobacco, leather, and Mediterranean brush.
🍾 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