Under her 2026–2027 presidency, the association of twelve of the world’s leading wine families Will explore art, architecture and wine — three expressions of enduring legacy.
July 9, 2026 — Primum Familiae Vini (PFV), the association uniting twelve of the world’s most historic family-owned wine estates, has named Alessia Antinori President for the year July 2026 to June 2027.
Alessia Antinori represents the twenty-sixth generation of a Florentine family that has made wine without interruption since 1385. Together with her sisters, Albiera and Allegra, she leads Marchesi Antinori – one of the oldest family companies in the world.
She succeeds Prince Robert of Luxembourg, President of Domaine Clarence Dillon, who welcomed the twelve families to Château Haut-Brion this week for the formal handover of the presidency. The setting was fitting in more ways than one. In early 2027, Château Haut-Brion will unveil new cellars by Annabelle Selldorf – architect of the renewed Frick Collection and the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, and recently selected to lead the transformation of the Louvre – a living expression of the dialogue between architecture, place and wine that will define the year ahead.
Art, Architecture and Wine
Each PFV presidency is guided by a theme that shapes the families’ dialogue for the year. Alessia Antinori has chosen Art, Architecture and Wine – three disciplines united by their power to preserve memory, interpret place, and connect generations.
For the PFV families, the theme is lived rather than academic. A wine estate is never merely an agricultural facility: it is a cultural landmark, shaped by centuries of building, collecting and patronage. Across the twelve houses, this takes many forms – historic châteaux and cellars preserved across generations, contemporary commissions in quiet dialogue with the landscape, collections that connect wine to the wider world of ideas. The Antinori family’s own winery, Antinori nel Chianti Classico – opened in 2012 and set almost invisibly into the Tuscan hillside – has become one of the most admired works of winery architecture of this century: a building that expresses in stone and light the same principles that guide great winemaking. Patience. Craftsmanship. Respect for place.
Reflecting on her theme, Alessia Antinori commented:
“A great wine is never simply an agricultural product; it is a cultural artifact – the expression of a territory, its people and its history. For our families, commissioning a building or a work of art is not a transaction; it is a way of anchoring our values in the landscape for the next century. Both art and wine remind us that, in an accelerating world, human sensitivity, patience and individual vision remain irreplaceable.”
The 2026–2027 presidency reaffirms the association’s founding conviction: that safeguarding exceptional wine means safeguarding the culture, knowledge and places that have shaped it across generations.
About Primum Familiae Vini
Founded in 1991, Primum Familiae Vini brings together, by invitation, twelve of the world’s most historic and renowned wine-producing families, united by a shared belief in family ownership, intergenerational transmission and the responsible stewardship of their estates. For more than three decades, PFV has provided a private forum where independent family wine estates exchange experience and reflect together on the future of fine wine. www.pfv.org
The twelve families of Primum Familiae Vini (in alphabetical order)
Baron Philippe de Rothschild (France)
Champagne Pol Roger (France)
Domaine Clarence Dillon (France)
Egon Müller-Scharzhof (Germany)
Familia Torres (Spain)
Famille Hugel (France)
Famille Perrin (France)
Maison Joseph Drouhin
Marchesi Antinori (Italy)
Symington Family Estates (Portugal)
Tempos Vega Sicilia (Spain)
Tenuta San Guido (Italy)
