
Considered the biggest wine theft in Italian history, thieves stole prestigious brands such as Tignanello, Solaia and Guado al Tasso.
Masked thieves stole 30,000 bottles of wine valued at €5 million from the Marchesi Antinori winery in Tuscany, Italy, using trucks and forklifts.
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Marchesi Antinori is one of the largest family-owned wineries in Italy located in Tuscany.
Thieves have stolen 30,000 bottles of wine, with a total value of around 5 million euros, from a prestigious Italian winery. It is already considered the largest robbery of this type in the history of Italy.
Marchesi Antinori, one of Italy's largest family-owned wineries, confirmed that the theft at its facilities in Tuscany took place last Saturday, as the company was preparing to ship a shipment to customers abroad.
Police believe at least seven masked men disabled alarms, disabled cameras and used company forklifts to load two large trucks with the company's prized Tuscan red wines: Tignanello, Solaia and Guado al Tasso.
Renzo Cotarella, the executive director, told the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera that it was the largest theft of its kind in Italy. "A robbery of this magnitude and value had never occurred in Italy," he said.
According to Cotarella, the winery is confident that the loot will be recovered: "Two trucks loaded with merchandise cannot disappear without a trace. The Tuscan roads are full of cameras; perhaps with a little luck we can recover at least some of the bottles that were stolen from us."
"These wines have a great quality-price ratio and I don't know how they can sell all this wine all over the world without anyone noticing," continues the winery manager.
The company believes the selection of bottles, which typically sell for between €150 and €500 each, suggests the thieves were wine connoisseurs and had inside information.
The theft was discovered Monday morning when staff arrived at the warehouse. So far no arrests have been made.
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