Tignanello IGT

Name: Antinori Tignanello IGT
Brand: Antinori
SKU: WRW0415HI

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SKU:WRW0415HI

Renowned

Rated 97/100 by Wine Advocate (top 8% of their reviews).

Strong Vintage

WNLQ9 vintage signal, averaged from Wine Enthusiast Wine Vintage Chart 2026 Edition's 3 closely-agreeing Tuscany 2022 ratings (Tuscany Bolgheri; Tuscany Chianti Classico; Tuscany Brunello).

A vintage grade rates the growing season in this wine’s region — not this specific bottle. Source.

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A Sangiovese-dominant blend rounded out with Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, aged in small oak barrels — structured, refined and built for cellaring, and historically significant as the wine that helped launch the Super Tuscan category.

Why it tastes this way

Tignanello was originally released as a Chianti Classico Riserva from a single vineyard, but from the 1971 vintage its producers broke with Chianti's traditional white-grape blending rule and began aging Sangiovese in small French oak barriques with Cabernet

added to the blend — one of the first wines to do so, and the move that got it declassified out of Chianti Classico DOCG into a Tuscan table wine/IGT category, a lineage that predates and is distinct from Antinori's other Super Tuscan, Solaia.

Signature pairings

Bistecca alla Fiorentina (Bistecca alla Fiorentina)
A classic regional pairing: the wine's Sangiovese-driven acidity and firm tannin cut through the richness of Tuscany's iconic grilled T-bone steak.
Wild boar ragu with pappardelle (Pappardelle al cinghiale)
Rustic, gamey Tuscan ragu matches the wine's structure and dark fruit while regional tradition reinforces the pairing.
Aged Pecorino Toscano (Pecorino Toscano stagionato)
A firm, salty aged sheep's cheese from the same region complements the wine's tannin and acidity.

About this bottle

Product information compiled from producer, importer and reference sources.

Tignanello 2022 is intensely ruby red in color with purple hues. The wine opens impressively with aromas of cherries, ripe black cherries and pomegranate seeds with delicate notes of violets that lead to fresh balsamic hints. The bouquet is completed by elegant hints of vanilla and cotton candy.

Supple savory tannins impart a dynamic impact on the palate, dense yet fresh. The wine closes with a lengthy finish that echoes aromas perceived on the nose.

HISTORICAL DATA

Tignanello is produced exclusively from the vineyard of the same name, a parcel of some 140 acres (57 hectares) with limestone-rich soils and a southwestern exposure at 1150-1325 feet (350-400 meters) above sea level at the Tignanello estate. It was the first

Sangiovese wine to be aged in small oak barrels, the first modern rd wine to use such non-traditional varieties as Cabernet in the blend, and among the first red wines from the Chianti Classico area to be produced without white grapes.

The wine, originally called "Chianti Classico Riserva vigneto Tignanello" (a Chianti Classico Riserva from the Tignanello vineyard), was produced for the first time from a single vineyard parcel in 1970, when the blend contained 20% of Canaiolo and 5% of Trebbiano and Malvasia, both white grapes., and the wine aged in small oak barrels.

In 1971 it became a Tuscan red table wine rather than a Chianti Classico, and was called Tignanello; in the 1975 vintage the white grapes were totally eliminated from the blend. Ever since 1982, the blend has been the one currently used. Tignanello is bottled only in favorable vintages, and was not produced in 1972, 1973,1974, 1976, 1984, 1992, and 2002.