Est. 1385 
36 wines 
Tastings
Tours
Accommodation
Booking required 
Wine area
Chianti Classico
The galestro and alberese hills between Florence and Siena, where Sangiovese became Italy's most quoted red.
Marchesi Antinori
Marchesi Antinori is Italy's oldest family wine business, making wine since 1385 across 26 generations. The business is still run from Palazzo Antinori in Florence, bought in 1506. It runs nine estates across Tuscany and Umbria, and its cellar at Bargino is built into a Chianti hillside. The best-known wines are Tignanello and Solaia, two originals of the Super Tuscan style. Albiera Antinori has led it since 2017 with her sisters Allegra and Alessia. Three estates take visitors, from daily tours at Bargino to tastings under a tenth-century abbey.
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Tuscany
- Est. 1385
- 36 wines
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
Wines from Marchesi Antinori
About Marchesi Antinori
The story starts in 1385, when Giovanni di Piero Antinori joined the winemakers' guild of Florence. In 1506 the family bought Palazzo Antinori in the heart of the city. The business is still run from that address today, 26 generations on. They are counted as Italy's oldest wine family still in business.
The main cellar sits at Bargino, south of Florence. Architect Marco Casamonti finished it in 2012, sunk into a Chianti Classico hillside with vines growing on the roof. Inside, the wine moves by gravity, not pumps, past walls of terracotta, wood and steel.
Nine estates make the wines. Tignanello and Solaia helped start the Super Tuscan wave in the late 1970s. Both are IGT Toscana, from the Tignanello estate. In Chianti Classico the family also makes the Marchese Antinori Riserva, Pèppoli, Villa Antinori and the Gran Selezione Badia a Passignano. Guado al Tasso is the Bolgheri estate, with Il Bruciato as its second wine. Pian delle Vigne makes Brunello di Montalcino. In Umbria, Castello della Sala makes the white Cervaro della Sala from Chardonnay and Grechetto.
The group belongs to VIVA, Italy's state scheme for greener vineyards. It also farms with drones, weather stations and vineyard robots. Two estates are certified organic, Castello della Sala and La Parrina, and more vineyards are farmed the same way. Albiera Antinori has led the company since 2017, with her sisters Allegra and Alessia beside her.
Three estates take visitors. Bargino runs daily tours, from a short tasting up to seven wines with lunch at Rinuccio 1180, its rooftop restaurant. At Badia a Passignano you taste under a tenth-century abbey. At Guado al Tasso, lunch at Osteria del Tasso follows the tasting. You can stay over too, at the family's Fonte de' Medici in the Chianti hills.
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Marchesi Antinori
Firenze · Chianti Classico
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Visit & Experiences
3 bookable experiences at Marchesi Antinori
3 tastings, checked by our editors. From €50.
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Tasting
Tinaia Tour at Antinori nel Chianti Classico
1 hour 30 minutes
From €50
Guided 90-minute tour of the Bargino cellar, the spiral staircase and the rooftop vineyards, finishing with a three-wine tasting (Villa Antinori Chianti Classico Riserva, Cont'Ugo Bolgheri, Bramasole Cortona Syrah) in the glass-walled museum room.
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Bottaia Tour at Antinori nel Chianti Classico
2 hours 30 minutes
From €75
Two-and-a-half-hour in-depth visit through production areas, barrique cellars and large cask aging rooms, with a four-wine tasting (Toscana rosato IGT, Villa Antinori and Marchese Antinori Chianti Classico Riserva, Badia a Passignano Gran Selezione) in the suspended glass tasting room.
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Tasting
CRU Tour with lunch at Rinuccio 1180
2 hours 30 minutes plus lunch
From €190
Two-and-a-half-hour cellar tour and seven-wine tasting in the suspended bottaia, followed by lunch with wine pairings at the rooftop restaurant Rinuccio 1180. Adults only.
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Tours that visit Marchesi AntinoriRun by a tour operator. The estate is one stop of several. Booking completes on the platform that runs the tour.
Siena and Chianti Wineries Excursion by Private Luxury Van from Florence
Marchesi Antinori · stop 4 of 4
8 hours
From €700 per person
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Private Half Day Tour Chianti Classico Wine Experience
Marchesi Antinori · stop 5 of 5
5 hours
From €246 per person
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Chianti Classico E-bike Tour
Marchesi Antinori · stop 1 of 4
8 hours
From €469.51 per person
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Plan your visit
Piazza degli Antinori, 3, 50123 Firenze, Firenze (Toscana)
What Marchesi Antinori makes
Marchesi Antinori's current bottle selection is led by Toscana IGT. The clearest grape signal comes from Sangiovese and Merlot.
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The family is based at Palazzo Antinori in Florence. The main cellar is at Bargino in San Casciano val di Pesa, between Florence and Siena. Nine estates spread across Chianti Classico, Bolgheri, Montalcino, Maremma and Umbria.
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