the super tuscans clockwise from solaia vineyards at tenuta tignanello estate in the heart of chianti classico; the modernistic antinori nel chianti classico winery; albiera antinori in the barrel room at antinori nel chianti classico italian wine had faded through on quantity and less on quality piero antinori led a radical effort to introduce new approaches in making chianti white grapes and aging the wine in clean new french oak the result was tignanello produced exclusively from grapes grown in a 140-acre vineyard at antinori's tignanello sangiovese to be aged in small oak barrels; the first italian red the first italian red wines made in chianti with no white grapes the changes were consid- the rules of the chianti classico but the results spoke for them- started experimenting with now one of italy's most suc- one generation takes over and the other everybody contributes." centuries in the making we're visiting at the antinori nel chianti facility near florence that opened in 2013 the winery was built into the tuscan hillside low brown roofline and sweeping stretches vaulted rooms; the upper levels house corpo- continued on page 36
