Piero Antinori

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A bottle of Tignanello

Marchese Piero Antinori (born July 16, 1938 in the Palazzo Antinori in Florence ) is an Italian wine entrepreneur. He is President of the global family company Marchesi Antinori Srl . Marchese Piero Antinori created the first super Tuscan in 1971 with the top- quality wine Tignanello and thus completely renewed top- quality Italian viticulture. Antinori is a member of the Primum Familiae Vini , a global association of traditional, leading family businesses for wine growing and trading.

Antinori family

The Italian noble family Antinori in Tuscany has been dedicated to viticulture for 26 generations and is one of the largest and most important wine producers and trading houses in Italy. The founder was Giovanni di Piero Antinori in 1385. He came from a Florentine merchant family with a long winemaking tradition. Giovanni became successful and so wine production, together with the silk trade and international banking, took an important place in the family's activities.

Life

Piero is the second of three children of Marchese Niccolo 'Antinori and Countess Carlotta della Gherardesca . Piero has an older sister, Illaria, and a younger brother, Lodovico.

After high school he graduated in economics and business from the University of Florence. He spent his summer holidays traveling around the world and working with international wine producers, such as the world-famous oenologist Émile Peynaud from Bordeaux , to become a trained wine technician. In 1965 he married Francesca Fiorano (* 1940). The marriage had three daughters: Albiera (* 1966), Allegra (* 1971) and Alessia (* 1975).

In 1968 he took over his father's company. With the oenologist Giacomo Tachis (1933-2016) he developed a wine from Sangiovese grapes, the authentic Tuscan vine, which he combined against the provisions of the wine-growing law with Cabernet Sauvignon for a new type of cuvée , expanded it in small French barrique oak barrels and so characteristically and significantly changed the wine. The success was overwhelming, the Tignanello was born and with it the first so-called " super Tuscan ". Two more soon followed: " Sassicaia " from Maremma and "Pergole Torte" from Radda in Chianti . Today the property includes numerous wineries and cellars in the wine-growing regions of Apulia , Piedmont , Tuscany and Umbria as well as recently in California with a total vineyard area of ​​around 1,200 hectares . Olive oil is also produced on some of the Antinori family's estates . In addition, four restaurants with the name "Cantinetta Antinori" in the cities of Florence , Zurich , Moscow and Vienna are owned. The family business, in which Piero and his daughters Alessia, Albiera and Allegra also work, has an annual turnover of around 100 million euros. Albiera Antinori has been CEO of the family company since mid-2017.

Family tradition

The " Tenuta dell'Ornellaia " winery is located in the municipality of Bolgheri in the Italian wine-growing region of Tuscany . It was founded by Ludovico Antinori , Piero's younger brother, in 1981. The legendary oenologist André Tchelistcheff worked as a consultant when the first vineyards were laid out and the winery was built . He made wines like "Ornellaia" or later "Masseto", which hit the international scene right from the start. They were prime examples of those wines known as " super Tuscans ". The first wines in 1988 were the white "Poggio alle Gazze" from Sauvignon Blanc and the red "Ornellaia" ( Cabernet Sauvignon , Merlot and Cabernet Franc ). Ludovico Antinori sold the estate between 1999 and 2002 to the Californian wine entrepreneur and viticulture pioneer Robert Mondavi for around 40 million euros. Today it is owned by the Florentine wine company Frescobaldi .

Marchese Lodovico Antinori made a name for himself internationally with "Ornellaia" in the 80s. He is currently building "Campo di Sasso" in the Maremma with brother Piero . When the Antinoris acquired the property in 1995, it was intended as an extension to “Tenuta dell'Ornellaia”. "Campo di Sasso" also has an "offshoot" in New Zealand , where Sauvignon Blanc is produced in the Marlborough region under the name "Mount Nelson".

literature

Web links

Marchesi Antinori website

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marchesi Antinori. 26 generations of viticulture. Tre Torri Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 24, 121 f., ISBN 978-3-9446-2820-2 .
  2. ↑ Women at the top at Antinori Meininger 23 August 2017, accessed on 10 March 2018
personal data
SURNAME Antinori, Piero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian wine patron
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence