The millionth jump in Tuscany. The perpetrators took away thousands of bottles of wine in trucks

The history of the Antinori family's wine business dates back to 1385. Today, this company exports its products to 170 countries.

About 30,000 bottles of wine were stolen from warehouses in Tuscany last week. The owners estimate the losses at EUR 5 million and do not hide the fact that they hope to recover their goods. In the meantime, they urge customers around the world to be wary of offers outside official sales channels.

It said the thieves took between 8,000 and 10,000 bottles of Solaia, one of Italy's most sought-after brands, as well as Tignanello and Guado al Tasso. These wines cost from 150 euros per bottle, but some of the rarest vintages can fetch several thousand euros each on the market.

The theft is the latest in a series of similar incidents in Italy, following another incident in July at the renowned Banfi winery in Montalcino. So far, such crimes usually involved several high-value bottles that disappeared from restaurants or collectors' private cellars. Recent cases, however, involve much larger stocks stored in wineries.

Antinori's headquarters is in Florence. She said surveillance footage showed seven masked men entering a warehouse in Cortona a few days ago, disabling the alarm systems, and then loading thousands of crates of Tuscan red wine onto two trucks.

The theft was discovered the next morning when employees came to the warehouse.

Italian police suspect that the wine was stolen by a well-organized criminal group. The robbery was made easier by the fact that the wine bottles were already prepared for shipment to foreign distributors.