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Wine, 5 million stolen from the Antinori cellars in Cortona

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Professional thieves stole 30 thousand bottles of wine from the Marchesi Antinori cellars in Cortona, with a total value of 5 million euros.
The theft, which occurred over the weekend, involved seven masked men who deactivated the alarm and used two trucks to transport the loot, mainly made up of bottles of Tignanello, Solaia and Guado al Tasso.
The company considers it one of the largest thefts in its recent history.

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Marchesi Antinori is a family-run winery founded in 1385 in Florence, considered the largest in Italy. The company produces fine wines such as Tignanello, Solaia and Guado al Tasso, also destined for the foreign market.

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Theft of bottles worth a total of 5 million from the cellars of Marchesi Antinori, the largest family-run winery in Italy. This was revealed by the Financial Times, according to which professional thieves broke into the Tuscan company's warehouse and took away 30,000 bottles of wine, in what the company believes to be one of the largest thefts in its recent history.

This is the latest in a series of wine thefts in Italy, perpetrated by criminals whose careful selection of bottles reflects profound wine knowledge and insider information about their targets.

The Antinori company, founded in Florence as far back as 1385, told the British newspaper that last weekend thieves targeted its warehouse in Cortona, in the province of Arezzo, just as the company was preparing to ship a large batch of some of its most valuable bottles to customers abroad.

The seven masked men deactivated the alarm system and took away the loot - thousands of cases of the company's famous Tuscan reds: Tignanello, Solaia and Guado al Tasso - aboard two huge trucks. The stolen bottles usually have a retail price of between 150 and 500 euros each.

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