Several weeks ago 60 Minutes profiled the Antinori family, winemakers for over 600 years in Italy. They are billed as the oldest winemaking family on earth. For decades, Marchese Piero Antinori led the family business, just as other male family members before him. However, with no male heir, his three daughters – Albiera, Allegra and Alessia – are poised to take over the family business and become the first female leaders of the family business.

 

The daughter’s learned the business from the bottom up, working as field hands and helping with the harvest as teenagers. Alessia attended agriculture school in northern Italy to learn more about the family business; she was one of just two females in her class. Today, the daughters travel the countryside and the world, helping to grow, promote and market Antinori wines. These women intend to keep the business in family hands because if it was good enough in 1385, it’s good enough today.

 

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