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Tenuta dell'Ornellaia 2022

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Since 1982, Ornellaia has been producing some of the world’s finest wines, driven by the Frescobaldi family’s commitment to Tuscan excellence. With a Mediterranean-influenced style, Ornellaia is a true reflection of its exceptional terroir, where the rich blend of marine, alluvial, and volcanic soils adds complexity to both red and white grape varieties.

Born from a perfect balance of nature and expertise, Ornellaia thrives in a finely-tuned microclimate, where a meticulous ageing process allows the wine to evolve, gradually revealing its depth, finesse, and generosity over time.

The 2022 vintage began with a typical winter, followed by a cool, dry spring. The hot summer tested the vines, but timely summer storms helped revive the berries’ ripening process. Harvest began on August 25 with Merlot, continued in September with Cabernet Sauvignon, and concluded on October 10.

Ornellaia 2022 is a testament to perseverance in the face of climatic challenges, offering a wine that balances elegance and power.

The 2022 vintage opens with an expressive bouquet of black fruits, vanilla, and tobacco. On the palate, it is expansive and generous, with a powerful tannic structure and a long-lasting finish. Despite the heatwaves, this vintage retains remarkable elegance and vitality.

Variety
Cabernet Blend
Country
Italy
Vintage
2022
Bottle Size
750ml (Bottle)
Closure
Cork
Cellaring
15 Plus Years
Organic Substance
None
Oak Type
French Oak
Style
Red


Lot # 031
System ID # 471516

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One of the few 2022 Tuscan wines where you can really see that this will benefit from a few years in bottle, right now it is, hovering on the edge of something delicious, vibrating over the tannic architecture, feathered, campfire smoke, fennel, blackberry, liquorice and crushed peonies, and the bitter fennel and slate scrape, dense, contrast of textures and flavours like only truly great wines can do, a reflection of skilful construction. A gorgeous wine, slowly stretching out in the palate, 65% new oak for ageing. Harvest began August 9 for the whites, and the reds began August 25 with Masseto, and then a few days later for Ornellaia, one of the earliest on record, with around 38hl/h yield. - Jane Anson
Delicate. Poised. Classical. And very true to its identity. Perfectly pixilated red and darker berry fruits, with a little cherry stone too bringing a sense of coolness. A subtle hint of graphite with more to come. There’s still a suggestion of vanilla pod from the oak, but that’s just a reminder of the youthfulness of this wine and its long life ahead of it. Lovely texturally, with a beautiful lavender note that enters from the edges with the grip of the tannin – very beguiling. Crucially, this is very fresh on the palate too. This has a very well-defined central spine and the sense of compactness that comes with that seems to reinforce the length, stretching out the fruit all the way to a distant vanishing point. This will need a little time to come together aromatically but we have here a stunning Ornellaia in prospect. - Colin Hay

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