Cervaro della Sala Bianco Antinori 2022 75 cl.

Light smoky aroma with cedar and flint followed by flowers. Lively, fresh and characterized by notes of vanilla, lemon, butter and small pastries. A wine with great aging potential.

The name Cervaro comes from the noble family that owned the Castello della Sala in the 14th century, namely the Monaldeschi della Cervara. Here you get an excellent Chardonnay combined with a small amount of Grechetto in a wine that is made to improve over time. Cervaro della Sala was one of the first Italian white wines to undergo malolactic fermentation and aging in barriques with the first vintage in 1985.

The 2022 vintage was characterized by generally warm and dry winter and spring periods. The month of June also continued to be dry with high temperatures. Fortunately, the climate did not stress the vines. Rain in the first days of August restored the situation in the vineyards, ensuring optimal ripeness of the grapes. The Chardonnay harvest for Cervaro della Sala is considered to be of exceptional quality, and began in the third week of August with ripe grapes with an excellent freshness and aromatic profile.
The Grechetto harvest took place after three weeks, around mid-September.

About Antinori
Italian Marchesi Antinori is 26 generations of absolutely world-class wine history. 630 years is almost hard to understand when it comes to one and the same family of wine producers. But Antinori can trace its history all the way back to 1385, when Giovanni di Piero Antinori was admitted to the ‘Arte Fiorentina dei Vinattieri’, the order of winemakers in Florence. Today, Marchesi Antinori is a member of Primum Familiae Vini – an association of 12 of the most prestigious family-owned wineries in the world. It doesn’t get much bigger than this.

Already in Renaissance Florence, the Marchesi Antinori was a very successful wine house, and Allesandro Antinori was one of the richest residents of the city, which was the center of the great thinkers and artists of the time such as Leonardo da Vinci and for writers such as Dante Alighieri, who wrote his Divine Comedy. Marchesi Antinori is to this day a family-owned company, where values ​​such as enormous care, focus on even tiny details and the desire to constantly become more skilled lie beneath the skin. Through 26 generations, the family has shaped Italian winemaking with innovative and sometimes bold decisions, but always with a fundamental respect for tradition. In 1974 Marchesi Antinori launched his first Tignanello on the market, one of the first so-called `Super Toscanes’. The wine shook up the Italian wine world and changed what could be done in the boot country. Created on a blend of Sangiovese and the then ‘forbidden’, foreign grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, Piero Antinori was one of the great innovators in a brand new wave of super-Tuscans, who dared to create without distinction of old rules and standards. Today, Tignanello is considered to be one of the most important wines in the entire wine history of Italy.

Antinori thus already has many more chapters in its history than the vast majority of wineries. But the last chapter is still far from being written. You will be assured of this when you drive up in front of the distinguished winery. Here, everything is done tastefully, from the works of Leonardo da Vinci and Giovanni Della Robbia on display to the lighting in front of the elevator, which leads up to the small restaurant overlooking the vineyards. Although the old roots play a big role in the family’s daily work and in the visions for the house and each individual wine, it has never put an end to Antinori’s always innovative spirit, as the example of Tignanello shows. They research new local and international grape varieties and experiment with alternative cultivation methods, fields at varying heights, fermentation methods, different casks for barrel aging, etc. Today, Albiera Antinori is the director of Marchesi Antinori with the support of the sisters Allegra and Alessia. Their father, Marchese Piero Antinori, is Honorary President of the family business.