Chianti Classico Gran Selezione DOCG 'Badia a Passignano' 2021 (750 ml.) Antinori

Badia a PassignanoIs located above Sambuca Val Pesa, 3 km south of Tenuta Tignanello; its 223 hectares stretch over limestone soil, reaching an altitude of 250 to 300 meters in one of the most beautiful and productive areas of the Chianti Classic. Its fundamental importance in the history of Chianti is recorded in hundreds of volumes, now kept in the State Archives of Florence, which provide information about the vineyards of Sangiovese and the area's crops. To confirm this, in 1983, a millennia-old Vitis vinifera plant was found in the lands surrounding Badia a Passignano.

THE COMPANY

The Family Antinori is dedicated to wine production since more than six hundred years: since 1385, when Giovanni di Piero Antinori He became a member of the Florentine Art of Wine Merchants. Throughout its long history, spanning 26 generations, the family has always directly managed this business with innovative and sometimes bold choices, but always preserving respect for traditions and the territory.

Today the company is led by Albiera. Antinori, with the support of his two sisters Allegra and Alessia, who are personally involved in the company's activities. The Marquis Piero Antinori He is currently the Honorary President of the company. Tradition, passion, and intuition have been the driving qualities that have led the Marchesi Antinori to establish itself as one of the leading Italian wine producers.

Each vintage, each piece of land, each idea that one wishes to implement is a new beginning, a new pursuit of ever higher quality margins. As Marchese Piero likes to say: "The ancient roots play an important role in our philosophy, but they have never inhibited our innovative spirit." Over time, alongside the historic estates in Tuscany and Umbria that belong to the family, investments have been made in other areas suitable for quality wine production both in Italy and abroad, where a new path of enhancing new "terroirs" with high viticultural potential could be undertaken.

The Marchesi Antinori Expressing a passion for viticulture involves seeking increasingly subtle margins for improvement. To this end, continuous experiments are conducted in vineyards and wineries with selections of clones of both native and international grape varieties, types of cultivation, vineyard altitudes, fermentation methods and temperatures, traditional and modern winemaking techniques, different types of wood, sizes, and ages of barrels, and by varying the length of bottle aging.

"We have proven over the years that in Tuscany and Umbria there was the potential to produce high-quality wines, recognized internationally, that could showcase elegance and finesse while always maintaining their original character. Our library has many titles, but for us, it is not rich enough. We have a mission that is not yet fully accomplished, which drives us to express the vast potential of our vineyards and to reconcile the new that remains to be discovered with the Tuscan taste heritage, which includes tradition, culture, agriculture, and the artistic and literary elements that indeed represent the identity of the region." Marchesi Antinori, one of whose greatest strengths lies in being Tuscan, or, if you prefer, our 'Tuscanity'."Piero Antinori
 

The family Antinori Since its foundation, it has been part of PFV, "Premum Familiae Vini", an informal association of wine companies owned by a family. PFV transcends geographical boundaries and maintains a common bond: that of vineyard ownership and wine production as a family activity to be cultivated and refined, like a great wine, over time.