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A theft occurred at Marchesi Antinori, a historic winery in Tuscany, where thieves stole 30,000 bottles of wine worth €5 million (£4.2m) from the cellar on Saturday night. The gang, consisting of at least seven masked individuals, disabled security systems and used company forklifts to load two trucks with high-value wines such as Solaia, Guado al Tasso, and Tignanello ranging in price between €120 and €400 a bottle from the 2023 vintage. The winery’s CEO expressed hope that surveillance footage would help track down some of the stolen goods but noted that their insurance does not cover such large-scale thefts.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-09,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
On Saturday, at least seven masked thieves stole 30,000 bottles of wine worth approximately €5m (£4.2m) from a Marchesi Antinori storage facility in Tuscany, Italy. The targeted wines included the highly prized Solaia, Tignanello, and Guado al Tasso Tuscan reds. The thieves disabled security systems and used company forklifts to load two trucks with the stolen wine as the winery was preparing a major shipment abroad. This incident is considered the largest theft of its kind in Italy's history. Renzo Cotarella, CEO of Marchesi Antinori, expressed hope that authorities would be able to trace the stolen wine due to extensive surveillance on Tuscan roads. This heist follows another recent high-value theft at the Banfi winery in Montalcino, signaling an increasing trend of large-scale wine thefts from Italian wineries.
Written for “Wine Theft In Italy” on 2026-10-09,
grounded in this article and the 2 other(s) covering the same event.
Thousands of bottles of wine worth €5m (£4.2m) have been stolen from a prestigious winery in Tuscany in what is thought to be the biggest heist of its kind in Italy.
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A gang of at least seven masked individuals broke into the cellar of Marchesi Antinori, a family-owned winery dating back to the late 1300s, in Cortona after shutting off the alarms and surveillance cameras before using company forklifts to load two large trucks with 30,000 bottles of wine and making off.
Among the bottles targeted were those most prized by wine collectors and consumers, including Solaia, Guado al Tasso and Tignanello, notable as one of the first red wines in the Tuscany region to be produced without white grapes.
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All the stolen bottles, ranging in price between €120 and €400 a bottle, are from the firm’s 2023 vintage.
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The theft occurred on Saturday as the company based in the hilltop town of Cortona prepared for a major shipment to buyers abroad.
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However, the robbery was only discovered when staff arrived for work on Monday morning.
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“The gang was very prepared,” Renzo Cotarella, chief executive of Marchesi Antinori, told Corriere della Sera.
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“A theft of this scale and value has never happened before in Italy.”
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He said he had “great confidence” that investigators would trace the stolen wine, which included 3,000 bottles, some of them magnum-sized, of Barolo Ginestra.
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“Two trucks full of merchandise can’t just disappear into thin air,” he added.
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Perhaps with a bit of luck we’ll be able to recover at least some of the bottles.”
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But Cotarella, who suspects the same gang could have been involved, never imagined a theft of such scale would happen to his firm.
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Unfortunately, the company’s insurance policy does not cover the robbery of wine at such huge value.
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“We had always considered the possibility of having a few cases of wine being stolen during their transportation, but certainly not that two trucks manage to enter the cellar and make off with such a huge haul,” he told Corriere.
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Such large wine robberies were usually meticulously prepared and would probably be carried out by those with an intimate knowledge of wine themselves, Corriere suggested, with the target destination possibly collectors, bars or restaurants.
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However, a sudden increase in the supply of such wines could raise suspicion.
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As the investigators continue their search, Cotarella said the company, which was established in 1385, has warned customers to be wary of any offers of its wine outside official channels.
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