TIGNANELLO 2019 - TENUTA TIGNANELLO - ANTINORI

“Super Tuscan” wines, the main protagonists of the first Italian wine revolution in the 1960s, were defiant wines that set themselves apart from what everyone had been doing before. Wines that prioritised the search for the original Tuscan terroir and quickly found success. The two pioneering wineries in this revolutionary movement were Tenuta San Guido, which launched Sassicaia, a Bordeaux-style wine made with foreign varieties (Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc), and, three years later, Marchesi Antinori's Tignanello, which, in addition to including non-traditional varieties, was the first barrel-aged Sangiovese. The flagship wine of one of Italy’s most historic winemaking families (producing wine for over 600 years), Antinori Tignanello Toscana is one of the country’s most famous wines. The result of respect for tradition and for the territory and its continuity, it represents the past, the present and the future of the Tuscan quality movement. In production since 1971 but on