Vin Santo del Chianti Classico
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh Mediterranean seafood, light pasta dishes with herb pesto, and young goat cheeses or traditional Tuscan crostini.
✨ Technical Specifications
The historic house of Marchesi Antinori, with over six centuries of winemaking heritage in Tuscany, has long championed the potential of Tuscan white wines alongside their legendary reds. This dedication is epitomized by their classic Tuscan white style, pioneered in 1931 with the introduction of Villa Antinori Bianco. Sourced from estate vineyards across Tuscany, these wines traditionally blend native Italian varieties such as Trebbiano and Malvasia with international grapes like Pinot Grigio, Pinot Bianco, and Chardonnay. The grapes are grown in soils rich in clay and limestone, benefiting from warm Tuscan days and cooling night breezes. Fermented entirely in temperature-controlled stainless steel to preserve pristine fruit character, the resulting wine is a vibrant, aromatic expression of the region, offering notes of green apple, white peach, and delicate orange blossom underpinned by a crisp, mineral finish.
🍾 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.