The Antinori family has been making wine for more than six hundred years: since, in 1385, Giovanni di Piero Antinori became part of the Florentine Art of the Vinattieri. Throughout its long history, spanning 26 generations, the family has always personally managed the activities with innovative, sometimes courageous choices, always with unwavering respect for tradition and the land.
Today, the company is led by Marquise Piero Antinori, with the support of his three daughters Albiera, Allegra and Alessia, engaged in business activities in the first person.
Tradition, passion and instinct have been the driving qualities that have made of Antinori one of the leading Italian producers of quality wines.
Every vintage, every terroir, every idea that is willing to lead off a new beginning, a new search for more and more high quality margins. As Marquise Piero loves to repeat: the ancient roots play an important role in our philosophy, but they have never held back our spirit of innovation.
To the estates of Tuscany and Umbria, historic heritage of the family, with time investment in other areas suitable for the production of quality wines in Italy and abroad were added, where they could embark on a new path of development of new terroir with high production potential.
Antinori continually experiments in his vineyards and wineries with selections of clones of indigenous and international grapes, types of crops, vineyard altitudes, fermentation methods and temperatures, traditional and modern winemaking techniques, types of wood, size and age of the barrels, and varying the length of aging in bottle.
Piero Antinori says: «We have proven, over the years, that in Tuscany and Umbria there was the opportunity of producing wines of quality, internationally recognized, theat could show elegance and finesse while maintaining their original character».
Looking ahead, Antinori said: «Our library has many titles, but not rich enough for us. We have a mission which is not fully accomplished, which pushes us to express the vast potential of our vineyards and reconcile the new that is still to be discovered with the assets of the Tuscan style which includes tradition, culture, agriculture, artistic and literary fact that represent the identity of Antinori, and one of the greatest points of strength lies in the fact of being in Tuscany, or, if you prefer, in our "Tuscanity"».
