Thieves make off with €5m haul from prestigious Italian winery
A gang of thieves stole 30,000 bottles of wine worth €5 million from the historic Marchesi Antinori winery in Tuscany. The highly organized heist involved disabling security systems and using company equipment to load trucks.
Why it matters
The scale of this theft represents a significant loss for the luxury goods sector and highlights vulnerabilities in high-value agricultural supply chains.
Vineyards in Tuscany belonging to Marchesi Antinori. Vineyards in Tuscany belonging to Marchesi Antinori. Italy Thieves make off with €5m haul from prestigious Italian winery Gang broke into cellar of Marchesi Antinori in Cortona and loaded two trucks with 30,000 bottles before getaway
Prefer the Guardian on Google 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 .
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.
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