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2022 Ornellaia - 6x75cl
12C2ORNE6PK _ 2022 - Ornellaia - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Ornellaia
  • Region Bolgheri
  • Grape Cab. Sauvignon/ Merlot/ Cab. Franc/ Petit Verdot
  • Drinking 2027 - 2050
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Later

2022 - Ornellaia - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Ornellaia
  • Region Bolgheri
  • Grape Cab. Sauvignon/ Merlot/ Cab. Franc/ Petit Verdot
  • Drinking 2027 - 2050
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Later
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Case price: £1,133.12 Duty Paid inc VAT
Equivalent Bottle Price: £188.85 Duty Paid inc VAT
Case price: £925.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis, February 2025

    Every vintage, Ornellaia is given an epithet to describe the wine's personality. This year, it has been dubbed 'La Determinazione', highlighting the fight for balance of freshness and elegance against the intensity and heat of the vintage. From grapes from 3 of the oldest plots at Ornellaia, the results are remarkable. There is freshness in abundance, with a notable violet and purple flower nose that leaps out of the glass. Head of Winemaking Marco Balsimelli explains that there is 10% Petit Verdot in the blend - higher than usual- which contributes greatly to this freshness and prettiness. The fruit is intense, but with a wonderful mineral lift that carries it through; a classic Ornellaia elegance. An amazing effort considering the challenges of the vintage, and a truly wonderful Ornellaia.

  • Goedhuis, February 2025

    Every vintage, Ornellaia is given an epithet to describe the wine's personality. This year, it has been dubbed 'La Determinazione', highlighting the fight for balance of freshness and elegance against the intensity and heat of the vintage. From grapes from 3 of the oldest plots at Ornellaia, the results are remarkable. There is freshness in abundance, with a notable violet and purple flower nose that leaps out of the glass. Head of Winemaking Marco Balsimelli explains that there is 10% Petit Verdot in the blend - higher than usual- which contributes greatly to this freshness and prettiness. The fruit is intense, but with a wonderful mineral lift that carries it through; a classic Ornellaia elegance. An amazing effort considering the challenges of the vintage, and a truly wonderful Ornellaia.

  • Wine Advocate, Feb 2025, Score: 97

    Tasted a few months after it was bottled, the Ornellaia 2022 Bolgheri Superiore Ornellaia will be coming to market in March 2025. The blend is 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc and 10% Petit Verdot. The wine sees 18 months of aging with up to 70% new oak, but the trick, proprietor Lamberto Frescobaldi tells me, is drawing from a large group of coopers with different toast levels and forests. "I don't want to make a wine of any one tonnellerie," he says. The oak element is crucial to the identity of this wine that reveals dark fruit, blackberry, sweet spice and cinnamon. Most of the vines were planted in the 1980s, and the average age of the plants is over 20 years old. Fruit comes from many parcels, including Bellaria, Bellaria Nuova, Bellaria Alta, Pero, Fosso, Vigna Vecchia and Stallina. Indeed, some 80 wines are made before final blending. The 2022 vintage will be remembered for its full-bodied appeal, concentrated fruit and generous oak renderings. Petit Verdot plays a slightly larger role in this vintage and was one of the surprise hits of 2022. It serves to elongate the wine and adds to its length. The wine's abundant fruit weight cedes to elegantly integrated tannins. This vintage will appeal to die-hard Ornellaia enthusiasts.

  • James Suckling, Feb 2025, Score: 97

    A Mediterranean-style wine. Stunning elegance on the nose, with vibrant dried eucalyptus leaves, flowers, restrained brambleberries and hints of black cherries, dried bananas, milk chocolate, cloves and graphite. The palate is full-bodied with elegant tannins and a touch of dust. It’s savory and well packed, with integrated, brilliant freshness and a ripe, fruity finish with a toasty aftertaste of blond tobacco. Try from 2026.

  • Vinous, Feb 2025, Score: 96

    The 2022 Ornellaia is a terrific wine for the year. Dark red-toned fruit, mocha, new leather, licorice and spice all take shape in a mid-weight, pliant Ornellaia that is quite alluring, even in the early going. The blend is 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc and 10% Petit Verdot, unusual for the elevated presence of Petit Verdot, which did better than Franc in 2022. The higher percentage of Petit Verdot comes through in the wine’s dark-leaning personality and also in the quality of tannins. More than anything else, the 2022 is a reminder of how important a tool blending is, especially in challenging years. I can’t wait to see how this ages. The 2022 Ornellaia is clearly among the most successful wines of the vintage.

  • Jane Anson, March 2025, Score: 99

    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.

Producer

Ornellaia

Since being founded in 1981 by Marchese Lodovico Antinori, Ornellaia has firmly established itself as one of the most revered wine estates in the world. Situated on the Tuscan coast, within the iconic Bolgheri appellation, the estate has long been dedicated to producing wines of unrivalled beauty and elegance. Thanks to the combination of Bolgheri’s unique terroir and growing conditions, Ornellaia consistently produces world-class wines from Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Sauvignon Blanc grapes, all of which are full of Mediterranean charisma. With an eighty-person strong team working full-time, Ornellaia’s passion and attention to detail is essential to its legacy; complacency is forbidden, and such is their meticulous approach, that everything is done on a grape-by-grape basis. Since 2006, Winemaker and Estate Director Axel Heinz has attributed a single word to each year, with the intricacies of individual vintages being wonderfully captured by a chosen contemporary artist and reproduced as an exclusive label, as well as a site-specific work of art that remains part of the estate’s permanent collection. Not only is Ornellaia an ambassador for the region, but the estate also reaffirms the belief that Bolgheri’s distinctive climate and diversity of soils creates wines as complex and delightful as any in the world.

Region

Bolgheri

The medieval town of Bolgheri was originally made famous by the poet Giosuè Carducci who wrote about the stunning Cypress Avenue, a breathtaking and magical three mile long corridor of trees leading up to the entrance to the village. Swept away to the coastal and most westerly area of Tuscany, Bolgheri has become synonymous with wines known as ‘Super Tuscans'. Composed of classic Bordeaux varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc (intermixed with the occasional Sangiovese), the Super Tuscans began as mere experimentation in the 1960s and 70s. These international French varieties flourished in Bolgheri's warm, yet maritime climate which resulted in unexpected success and reknown. It is here that one finds such famous names as Ornellaia, Tignanello and Sassicaia.

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