Italy's Antinori Family

Albiera, Alessia, and Allegra Antinori are taking the winery into the future. (Courtesy Antinori Family)

Italy’s Antinori Sisters Prepare To Run A Wine Empire -- Daily Beast

The women at the helm of the Antinori legend. When Italian winemaker Piero Antinori’s third child happened to also be his third daughter, he had to rethink a 600-year-old tradition of men running the family business. “He thought to himself, that’s life,” says 46-year-old Albiera Antinori, now the company’s vice president. “He didn’t have boys, so he had to deal with what he had.” Albiera, together with sisters Allegra, 42, and Alessia, 37, are the first women in 26 generations of the Antinori lineage to have any significant role in the family’s winery. They will eventually head the business when their father retires. They also lead a growing number of women making headway in the male-dominated Italian wine industry, though none for a house as significant and historical as Antinori.

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My Comment: Their website is here. More info on the family history and business can be found here.