434: The Transformation of Lodovico Antinori

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🗓️ 11 November 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Lodovico Antinori is a partner in Tenuta di Biserno, in the Maremma area of Tuscany, and was the founder of Ornellaia in Bolgheri. He is also a partner in Tenuta Campo di Sasso.

Lodovico is open and frank in his assessment of his career, discussing his family's position within Tuscan wine, his own important trip to California, and the rise of Super Tuscan wines like Ornellaia. He describes founding Ornellaia with the help of Andre Tchelistcheff, the later influence of Michel Rolland, and the rise to fame of Ornellaia and Masseto. He then discusses what led him to sell Ornellaia to the Robert Mondavi company, and his current projects in the Maremma of Tuscany, in Italy.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Lutav Ludovico Antonori, the co-founder of Tunut de Bizerno in the Marema, and also the original
0:31.0	founder of Orneliah in Bogary.
0:33.2	Hello, sir, how are you?
0:34.4	Very well, thank you.
0:35.8	Very nice to see you.
0:37.4	So you're the younger brother of Piero Antinori.
0:40.0	Yes, I am.
0:41.1	And your dad was Nico. Yes.
0:43.0	Yes.
0:44.0	So he was the guy who really did a lot of innovations for the Antonori family firm in terms of wine.
0:50.0	Like he introduced the Santa Christina.
0:52.0	Yes, he did that to Santa Christina. Yes, he did that.
0:54.3	Santa Christina Villantinori,
0:56.3	they became a benchmark of the time.
0:59.4	But I think so the most important thing
1:01.5	that he managed to accomplish before he left us was the Tianello.
1:06.7	It was San Jose with a portion of Cabernet souvenir.
1:11.6	It was an ologist from Bordeaux who taught us a few things about Malolactic.
1:18.4	So it is a very important benchmark that Tignanella would say and my father signature is on the label.
1:25.6	The first vintage of that would have been 71.
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