Ornellaia Last 24 Bottles

We SOLD OUT THE SAME DAY, managed to secure a further 24 bottles BUT only 10 remain at ONLY $365.00 each!

MORE PRESS FOR 2007 ORNELLAIA:

‘This wine is an opera - drama and music, opulence and beauty, highly disciplined and deeply expressive. Muscular, polished tannins. Magnificent.’
Jancis Robinson MW

"07 Ornellaia 93/100, outscoring 07 Latour, Margaux, Mouton-Rothschild, Haut Brion, Petrus, Le Pin and Cheval Blanc!"
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

Ornellaia is Italy’s greatest Bordeaux blend, one of Italy’s greatest wines and regarded as one of the great Bordeaux-blends of the world. It is consistently ranked similar in quality to Bordeaux’s First Growths by both Wine Spectator and Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate.

This wine on offer - 2007 Ornellaia, is one of the finest wines this estate has ever produced, in line with great vintages like 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2006. The wine’s outstanding quality is due to vine maturity, continual improvement in the vineyard and winery, and the excellent 2007 vintage.

Please email us or call 09 529 0935 to secure your order.

Wine Spectator rate the 2007 vintage in Bolgheri at 93-97 points and describe it as delivering "Slightly richer wines than in 2006, but equally structured and balanced."  

“An exceptional Ornellaia…one of the finest Italian wines produced this vintage.”
Leading UK wine fine wine merchants Armit & Co say; “The new release of Ornellaia is from the much anticipated 2007 vintage. Its incredible exuberance, charm and vitality immediately impressed us when we tasted the wine for the first time in the autumn and it was clear that this was not only an exceptional Ornellaia but also one of the finest Italian wines produced in this vintage.”

“A beautiful set of new releases…”
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate says; “This is a beautiful set of new releases from Tenuta dell’Ornellaia. As is the case throughout Tuscany in this vintage, these are wines that impress for their incredible length and textural finesse rather than for their size.”

The Wine Advocate rates 2007 Ornellaia 93/100, outscoring 2007 Latour, Margaux, Mouton-Rothschild, Haut Brion, Petrus, Le Pin and Cheval Blanc. They say; “The 2007 Ornellaia is remarkably open and accessible, very much in keeping with the personality of the vintage. Clean, minerally notes frame a core of silky, perfumed dark fruit, mocha, spices, licorice, grilled herbs and leather that impresses for its exceptional length.”

Record Auction Prices

Ornellaia’s prestige and collectability has reached new levels this year.  A 9-liter Salmanazar of 2007 Ornellaia was auctioned for US$45,000 at the Whitney Museum in New York, which works out to be the equivalent of approximately NZ$5,357 per 750ml bottle, over fifteen times the recommended retail price in New Zealand.

Wine Advocate Scores of 2007 Ornellaia vs. Bordeaux First Growths

Wine	Score	Approx Retail
Lafite Rothschild 2007	94	1100
Ornellaia 2007	93	350
Latour 2007	92+	895
Haut Brion 2007	92	588
Mouton Rothschild 2007	92	608
Ch. Margaux 2007	92	762

Tenuta dell'Ornellaia - the story so far......................

Created by Marchese Ludovico Antinori in 1981, Ornellaia was always groomed for stardom, with its 90ha (hectares) of Cabernet and Merlot, and spectacular, Napa-style cellars. Massive new investment by current owner Frescobaldi will ensure Ornellaia's status as the other great Bolgheri first growth, alongside Tenuta San Guido, for the foreseeable future.

Ornellaia has always had an international feel – Andre Tchelistcheff, Michel Rolland and Tibor Gal are among the winemakers who have left their mark – and the new Swiss oenologist with a Bordeaux background, Axel Heinz, maintains the tradition.

Production is structured along Bordeaux lines with a top-selection estate wine (Ornellaia) and a second label (Le Serre Nuove).

An isolated plot of deep clay soils, unusual for Bolgheri, is the source of the single-vineyard Masseto, arguably Italy's greatest monovarietal Merlot.

Ornellaia is a Bordeaux-inspired blend consisting principally of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot. In 2003 a small percentage of Petit Verdot was introduced. The use of several varietals gives the winemaking team the luxury of being able to tailor the exact proportion of the blend to the specific strengths of a given vintage. Because the blend tends to vary from year to year in a vertical tasting Ornellaia shows many different facets of its personality.

After harvest the varietals are vinified separately. Fermentation and maceration lasts between 25-30 days after which the wines are moved into French oak barrels where they age for 12 months. The wines are then racked and assembled into the final blend, which spends an additional six months in barrel prior to being bottled. The percentage of new oak has risen from 50%, which was used for vintages 1997 and 1998, to 60% used in 1999, to the 70% the estate has employed since 2000.