To our Italian wine collectors:

We have early access to our 2021 Tignanello allocation, ONLY for Artisan Wine customers, to receive your bottles months before the general market release! Our allocation is due to arrive in late July instead of September, exclusively for our customers!

As you can see in Wine Advocate's review below, this is the 50th anniversary for this perennially impressive Super Tuscan.

You may recall that the (long sold out) 2019 Tignanello was #Wine Spectator's #5 Top 100 Wine of 2022, and the 2020 vintage achieved a similar level of success. As reviewers are prone to saying, this wine continues to go from strength to strength.

Now is your opportunity to stock up on one of the world's most iconic wines at significant savings. But don't delay, as our small allocation won't be enough to go around and we expect it to sell out before its arrival date!

On the good news front, however, we do have a small quantity of the 2020 vintage left in stock - see below!

Ciao,

—James Tran

2021 Marchesi Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT

98 Points – Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:

"First made in 1971, this legendary Italian wine now celebrates its 50th birthday. Happy Birthday, Tignanello! The Marchesi Antinori 2021 Tignanello (made with 79% Sangiovese, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Cabernet Franc) pulls on all the heartstrings. The wine shows a quintessentially pretty taste profile with tart fruit flavors, redcurrant, tea leaf, heritage rose, crushed white pepper, licorice, nutmeg, clove and chopped mint. It opens slowly to reveal more richness and exuberance with time, becoming downright voluptuous and heady a short while later. The through line, however, remains the bright freshness and minerality of Sangiovese. Compared to the 2018 vintage (which I also loved), this vintage has more overall fruit weight and volume.

Marchesi Antinori General Manager Renzo Cotarella tells me that 2021 is the best vintage he has ever overseen. Ever. He prefers it to recent classics like 2016 and 2010. There was frost in the spring, and the growing cycle was very long. This is something that most grapes, and especially Sangiovese, need in order to exhibit aromatic depth and flavor complexity. "This is an exceptional year," he says, citing the inner energy certainly exhibited by the wines from 2021.

I agree, mostly, but not unequivocally. I love the precision and tension inherent to these wines, but I didn't encounter that same breathless vertical lift and linearity that I remember so well in 2016, for example. That was a vintage that managed to effortlessly balance both power and elegance, which is by no means an easy feat. To me, 2021 has the elegance but not the same piercing power that you only get in cooler vintages when sugar and phenolic ripening line up seamlessly. So, while I love these wines, especially the Chianti Classico Riserva Marchese Antinori and the outstanding Tignanello, my money is still on 2016 as the better vintage, speaking generally. But zoom in on one wine and my money is on the 2021 Tignanello over everything else." (Mar 2024)

98 Points – Vinous Media:

"The 2021 Tignanello is every bit as impressive from bottle as it was from barrel and then just after bottling. Silky and polished, with exceptional finesse, the 2021 has all the pedigree to become a modern benchmark for Tignanello and Italian wine more broadly. Bright dark red fruit, blood orange, spice, cedar and sweet pipe tobacco all soar out of the glass, framed by a discreet touch of French oak that adds raciness. In some vintages, the elements are discernible. In 2021, it is the total harmony of the wine that makes the strongest and deepest impression. The 2021 spent 17 months in wood, three months in neutral oak during the malolactic fermentation and then 14 months (50% new) for the rest of its aging. Superb. (Drink between 2027-2051)" - Antonio Galloni (Feb 2024)

Only 36 bottles allocated

Elsewhere: $200.00

$188.99 (1-11)

$184.99 (12+)