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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Thieves make off with €5m haul from prestigious Italian winery

Piero Antinori and Renzo Cotarella lean against wine barrels in the winery cellar
The estate’s chief executive, Renzo Cotarella, seen here with the Marchese Piero Antinori, said the gang was ‘very prepared’. Photograph: Agenzia Sintesi/Alamy

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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