Antitesi. Tre Bicchieri again for Avanzi’s Lake Garda rosé.
Cantina Avanzi’s Antitesi 2024 has been awarded Tre Bicchieri in Gambero Rosso’s Vini d’Italia 2027, the top rating in Italy’s most respected wine guide. It is the fourth major Gambero Rosso honour for this rosé in five years.
Gambero Rosso · Vini d’Italia 2027
Tre Bicchieri
For Antitesi 2024, a Valtènesi Riviera del Garda Classico DOC from Cantina Avanzi.
The award
Italy’s top wine honour, again.
Each autumn, Gambero Rosso’s Vini d’Italia guide awards its Tre Bicchieri, or three glasses, to a small selection of the wines it tastes from across Italy. For the 2027 edition, Lombardy received 37, and one of them is Antitesi 2024 from the Avanzi family.
It is not a one-off. Antitesi has now won Tre Bicchieri three times, and in between Gambero Rosso also named it Rosé of the Year. Few Italian rosés have a record like it.
Four Gambero Rosso honours in five years
Antitesi first won Tre Bicchieri with the 2021 vintage, the first time the Avanzi winery had received the award. Since then:
- Tre Bicchieri 2023 — Antitesi 2021, Avanzi’s first ever.
- Tre Bicchieri 2024 — Antitesi 2021, again.
- Rosé of the Year 2025 — a special award from Gambero Rosso, for Antitesi 2023.
- Tre Bicchieri 2027 — Antitesi 2024, announced this October.
A family on Lake Garda since 1931
The Avanzi family has been making wine in the Valtènesi, the gentle moraine hills on the south-western shore of Lake Garda, since 1931. The lake keeps the climate mild, and pink wine made from the local Groppello grape has long been the area’s speciality.
The family makes two very different rosés from it, and the names explain the idea. Rosavero is the thesis: the classic Valtènesi rosé, made with a single night of skin contact and released a few months after harvest. Antitesi is the antithesis. Groppello and Barbera are vinified two ways, mostly by gentle pressing with a small part on the skins, and the wine then rests on its lees for 270 nights. The result has the roundness, power and complexity to age, while keeping the freshness and pale colour of the lake’s rosés.
On our list
The award winners we import
Antitesi leads, with three more award-winning wines from our Avanzi and Antonutti ranges. See the Avanzi range.
The headline
01 wine / Lombardy01 Cantina Avanzi
Antitesi Valtènesi Chiaretto DOC
Tre Bicchieri 2027 · Rosé
Rosé wine
One of Italy’s most decorated rosés, and a serious wine for the table rather than just a sunny afternoon.
Round, powerful and complex, with graceful softness, pronounced sapidity and real length. Pale in the glass, it has the structure for seafood, cured meats, salads and lighter pasta, and enough depth to sit alongside richer dishes than most rosés can handle.
Also awarded
03 wines / Lombardy · Friuli02 Cantina Avanzi
Rosavero Chiaretto Valtènesi DOC
Tre Bicchieri 2026 · Rosé
Rosé wine
Antitesi’s classic sibling won Tre Bicchieri in the 2026 guide, for the 2024 vintage.
Delicate and flowery, with strawberry and white peach on the nose. Fresh and lively on the palate, with a gently bitter almond finish. An easy choice for rosé by the glass.
03 Antonutti
Ros di Muri
Gold, Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2023 · Red
Red wine
The 2017 vintage won a gold medal at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2023, one of the world’s largest wine competitions.
A spicy, velvety red from Central Friuli, with juniper, black pepper, cocoa, plum and cherry. Aged 18 months in French oak tonneaux and a further 12 in bottle, with soft, balanced tannins and a persistent finish.
04 Antonutti
Pinot Grigio Friuli Antonutti DOC
Silver, Global Pinot Grigio Masters 2023 · White
White wine
A silver medal at the Global Pinot Grigio/Pinot Gris Masters 2023, and a more characterful Pinot Grigio than most lists carry.
A short maceration on the skins gives a bright coppery colour, with fresh pear, spice and acacia honey. Lively and generous on the palate, with a refreshing finish.
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