Tignanello
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2042
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled Bistecca alla Fiorentina, slow-cooked wild boar ragu with pappardelle, and aged Pecorino Toscano cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Tignanello is a legendary milestone in Italian viticultural history, credited with igniting the 'Super Tuscan' revolution of the 1970s. Created by Marchese Piero Antinori and the visionary winemaker Giacomo Tachis, this groundbreaking red was first released as a single-vineyard Chianti Classico but was soon stripped of its DOC status for boldly defying rigid local laws. By omitting white grapes from the blend, incorporating Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, and aging the wine in French oak barriques, Antinori proved that Tuscany could produce world-class, modern wines of immense structure and elegance. Sourced from the historic Tignanello estate in the heart of Chianti Classico, the vines thrive in soils rich in calcareous marl, alberese, and galestro, imparting a signature mineral tension, refined tannins, and complex dark cherry and spice characteristics to this iconic Sangiovese-dominant blend.
🍾 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.