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

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

Gang broke into cellar of Marchesi Antinori in Cortona and loaded two trucks with 30, 000 bottles before getaway Thousands of bottles of wine worth €5 m (£4. 2 m) 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 1300 s, 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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