2017 Tenuta dell'Ornellaia - Ornellaia (3 L - Double Magnum)Colour : Red Producer : Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Label Name : Ornellaia Country : Italy Region : Tuscany Sub Region : Bolgheri Superiore Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 2017 Capacity : 3 L Double Magnum Ratings : James Suckling 97 pts, Vinous 97 pts, Decanter 96 pts Tasting Note : "Ornellaia 2017 masterfully interprets what was a particularly warm and sunny year. The intense and dark colour heralds a wine of beautiful concentration; the nose, rich

The estate has accumulated an extraordinary number of perfect and near-perfect scores from critics including Robert Parker and Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Intensely perfumed aromas of ripe red/blue fruits

but it also needs a good hour or more of air for some of the initial signs of funkiness to blow off

A remarkably vivid wine

founded in Reims in 1851 by Charles-Camille Heidsieck

the Chadwick team began picking the grapes in mid-March

with the signature American oak influence of toasted coconut

Produced by Domaine Pignier

where the estate’s 80 hectares of deep gravel over alios subsoil provide the ideal combination of drainage

Class in its purest form for what is certainly the most elegant of the Grands Crus

sensationally perfumed

dark berries