2022 Ornellaia, Bolgheri Superiore, Tuscany, Italy

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2022 Ornellaia, Bolgheri Superiore, Tuscany, Italy65% 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. 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,

The acid profile and tannin structure will easily support 20 years cellaring

Here too there is a gentle touch of wood spice framing the more elegant and ultra refined high-toned red pinot fruit nose that also evidences ample minerality that continues onto the rich

fresh quince

and much more restraint in the village wines and in Bourgogne Blanc

but he says he loves the effect of stems of old-vine Grenache in Châteauneuf - though other red varieties are destemmed

Really delicious and complete

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The two are then blended together and they have made a brilliant wine in 2008

gourmet reputation

but the palate still holds a good amount of acidity

considering the turbo-charged nature of some of the Right Bank wines

As it had been some time since my previous visit

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