Marchesi Antinori – Ancient Future

The Antinori family has been dedicated to winemaking for over six hundred years, ever since Giovanni di Piero Antinori joined the Florentine Winemakers’ Guild in 1385.

Marchesi Antinori: 26 Generations of Passion

The Antinori family has been dedicated to winemaking for over six hundred years, ever since Giovanni di Piero Antinori joined the Florentine Winemakers’ Guild in 1385. Throughout its long history, spanning 26 generations, the family has always managed this business directly, making innovative and sometimes courageous decisions while always maintaining an unwavering respect for tradition and the land.

Over time, the family’s historic Tuscan and Umbrian estates have been expanded with investments in other areas renowned for producing quality wines, both in Italy and abroad, where a new approach to promoting new terroirs with high viticultural potential could be undertaken. Marchesi Antinori expresses its passion for viticulture by seeking ever-finer margins for improvement. This is why they continually experiment in the vineyards and cellars, selecting native and international grape clones, cultivating methods, vineyard altitudes, fermentation methods and temperatures, traditional and modern winemaking techniques, different types of wood, barrel sizes and ages, and varying the length of bottle aging.

Every vintage, every vineyard, every idea is a new beginning, a new quest for ever-higher quality standards. As Marchese Piero likes to say: “Ancient roots play an important role in our philosophy, but they have never stifled our innovative spirit.”