Villa Antinori Bianco (2024)

About this wine

Villa Antinori Bianco 2024 is a blend built around Trebbiano and Malvasia with contributions from Pinot Bianco, Pinot Grigio and Riesling, produced in Tuscany under the Villa Antinori label. The wine shows a straw yellow color with green highlights and an expressive nose of lemon, green apple, orange blossom and subtle tropical notes. On the palate it is lively and mouth filling, supported by vibrant acidity and a saline mineral streak that carries through to the finish. Fermentation and aging were carried out in stainless steel at cool temperatures to preserve aromatic clarity and freshness. The overall texture is clean and focused with moderate alcohol and a medium length finish, reflecting Villa Antinori's long history of making a balanced white from selected Tuscan sites.

About the grape

Trebbiano Toscano has been a backbone of Tuscan white winemaking for centuries, prized here for its neutral, high acid profile and reliability in the region where Antinori often uses it to provide structure and freshness in stainless steel vinification. Malvasia Bianca Lunga contributes aromatic lift and floral notes, it is a historic Mediterranean variety that Antinori employs in modest proportion to add perfume and mid palate texture without oak influence. Pinot Bianco and Pinot Grigio bring gentle stone fruit and citrus character, they are cultivated at earlier harvest dates in cooler sites to preserve acidity and are fermented in steel to keep their primary fruit expression. Riesling Renano is included for its bright acidity and mineral tension, it is picked later in plots where ripeness and acidity balance well, and in this bottling it helps lift the blend and extend the wine's finish.

Quick facts

• 🕰️ Villa Antinori Bianco was first produced in 1931 as a white made from Trebbiano, giving it a long family legacy under the Antinori name
• 👑 Historically Villa Antinori bottles have been present in embassies and royal houses, making the wine part of diplomatic and ceremonial cellars
• 🍇 The blend includes a small parcel of Rhine Riesling alongside Tuscan varieties, an uncommon touch that adds aromatic lift
• 🌾 All the fruit for Villa Antinori Bianco comes from Antinori owned vineyards and much of the white harvest is done by hand in late August
• ❄️ The must is chilled to about 10°C for 48 hours to naturally clarify before stainless steel fermentation, a technique that preserves bright freshness

Palate profile

Producer

Marchesi Antinori, established in 1385 by Giovanni di Piero Antinori, is one of the world's oldest family-owned wineries, now led by the 26th generation. The family has been instrumental in the 'Super Tuscan' revolution, notably with their Tignanello wine introduced in 1971. Their state-of-the-art winery in Bargino, Tuscany, inaugurated in 2012, seamlessly blends innovative architecture with the surrounding landscape. Beyond winemaking, the Antinori family has a longstanding tradition of supporting the arts, exemplified by their Antinori Art Project, which commissions contemporary artworks for their estates.