Features
Name:
Villa Antinori Toscana Rosso IGT 2022
Terrain:
Rocky limestone
Cellar
The Antinori have dedicated themselves to the art of wine-making for more than six hundred years: ever since Giovanni di Piero Antinori joined the Arte Fiorentina dei Vinattieri in 1385.
For 26 generations, the family has always directly managed this activity with innovative and sometimes courageous choices, but always maintaining unaltered respect for tradition and for the territory.
Every vintage, every soil, every idea is a new beginning, a new search for ever higher quality margins. As Marquis Piero likes to say: "ancient roots play an important role in our philosophy, but they have never inhibited our innovative spirit".
Description
Villa Antinori red wine made from Sangiovese grapes and small additions of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Syrah. It was first produced in 1928 by Marquis Niccolò Antinori, Piero Antinori's father, as the symbolic wine of the Antinori House, capable, like perhaps no other, of representing the family's history, identity and continuity.
Organoleptic characteristics:
The wine is ruby red in colour. The nose is intense and complex, characterised by fruity notes of black cherry and plum and hints of boxwood, mint and black pepper. The palate is medium-bodied, round, with soft, delicate tannins supporting a long, savoury finish
Storage time:
5-7 years
Vinification
The harvested grapes were destemmed and softly crushed and transferred to thermo-conditioned stainless steel tanks. Alcoholic fermentation lasted
lasted 5 to 7 days while maceration lasted 8 to 12 days. Fermentation temperatures did not exceed 28 °C for the
Cabernet, Sangiovese and Petit Verdot grapes, thus favouring the extraction of colour and sweet tannins. In the case of the Syrah and Merlot grapes, temperatures never
exceeded 25 °C to preserve the aromatic components.
Acknowledgements
2017 Veronelli 89/100
2017 Luca Maroni 93/100
2017 Red Prawn 
