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The Hills of Chianti: The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles by Piero Antinori

libbyschnepf's review

2.0

Pietro Antinori paints an improbable picture of the reality of a multimillion dollar family owned wine business. It is clear Antinori has a love of family, wine, and Tuscany-but also a love of influence and success. Throughout the book Antinori struggles what story to tell; the humble yet successful Chianti making family still with boots in the soil, or an elite and globalized company with goals of a sort of wine imperialism. Perhaps this book told a story about Italian wine I didn’t want to hear.