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Serve at:
16 - 18 °C
Longevity:
15 - 25 years
Decanting time:
2 hours
- Start up year: 1385
- Oenologist: Renzo Cotarella
The Antinori family’s first encounter with wine dates back to 1385, when Giovanni di Piero Antinori joined the Guild of Wine Merchants to make the best use of the family’s country properties in Valdarno, around Florence.
However, it was not until the 16th century that banker and merchant Alessandro Antinori made the wine from his estates famous in Italy and abroad, travelling from Lyons to Flanders, and from Spain to Algiers.
Wine was to remain the family’s passion and main business activity, so much so that in 1898 the "Fattoria dei Marchesi Lodovico e Piero Antinori" was created by brothers Lodovico and Piero, the sons of Marchese Niccolò – a direct descendent of that other Niccolò who purchased Palazzo Antinori in 1506 and poured his efforts into publicising Tuscan wines around the world and creating fine quality products. For 26 generations the Antinori family have continued to make history.
In 2023, at the beginning of February, Villa Antinori Toscana IGT 2019 was named the third wine in the world, the only Italian wine, in Wine Specator's Top 10 Values 2022: the list of the 10 wines that according to the American magazine represent world excellence in terms of value for money.
| Name | Antinori Brunello di Montalcino Pian delle Vigne 1999 |
|---|---|
| Type | Red still |
| Denomination | Brunello di Montalcino DOCG |
| Vintage | 1999 |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 13.5% by volume |
| Grape varieties | 100% Sangiovese |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Tuscany |
| Vendor | Marchesi Antinori |
| Origin | The Pian Estate of the Vines is found to 6 km. to south of Montalcino, over the Val d' Orcia and takes the name from a characteristic railway station of XIX the situated century all' inside of the estate, tutt'ora in use. L' company is composed from c.a. 180 hectares of which approximately 65 they are planted to vineyard with an south-east exposure mostly and altitude between the 130 and 200 meter |
| Soil composition | The land is tendentially argillaceous and limestone, rich of small skeleton. |
| Yield per hectare | Less to 8.000 kg for vintage year 2003 - rendered dell' grape in wine: 68% |
| Harvest | After an taken care of selection of the grapes green selection flings before a time to July half and a second one in makes precedence the grape harvest, that they have allowed to carry in wine cellar for the production of the Pian of the Vines only the better clusters, the grapes has been diraspate and pigiate in soft way. |
| Fermentation temperature | Alcoholic fermentation to a not advanced temperature to the 27°C. |
| Fermentation | The maceration has happened in stainless steel tanks from 125 hectoliters for a period comprised between the 12 and 20 days. |
| Production technique | Malolactic fermentation |
| Aging | In barrels of oak of variable ability between the 30 and 80 hectoliters, and are aged for beyond two years. During summer 2006 it is proceeded to put in bottle |
| Year production | 155000 bottles |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |