Community Tasting Notes 222

• Nontaco Likes this wine: 96 points

  March 29, 2024 - In a great spot. Wonderful Ornellaia age - I almost want to make a comparison to the Guigal LaLas where age creates this patina of unwieldy flavor that is so satisfying. When it works like this 98 does, I find it can be superior to all but the very very best aged Bordeaux. Enjoyed at Amore, waiting on the friar.

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• felixp Likes this wine: 99 points

  January 9, 2024 - Blackcurrants, dark chocolate and mint dominate in this incredibly beautiful and youthful wine. Just gets better and better. Extraordinary length.
  Turning into a freak, and quite easily the best vintage of the line.

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• Cailles wrote: 97 points

  November 2, 2023 - No detailed notes taken. This was another magical bottle of this probably best ever vintage of Ornellaia. This has it all, the depth, the precision and purity, the intriguing fruit and seductiveness and the elegance and classiness of a great Bordeaux, youthful elements mixed with tertiary notes, as well as a superb structure with fine tannins, high tension and freshness, an airy texture and a perfect harmony of all components.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted, no extensive decanting needed. Good from the go and with a lot of life ahead.

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• Papies wrote: 94 points

  August 8, 2023 - 1995s & Friends (67 Pall Mall, London): Decanting works here and much like a year ago when when we had this last ( Papies 94) this benefited from it.
  Its a wine of two faces in our mind the nose s as bordeaux-esque as it gets but on the palate it feels like it has done an internship in California. The fruit is riper, denser, definitely more selection here and had a cold feel it and dare we say the wine is young. A sort of complete wine across and with a lot of capacity to improve with more time in bottle. Very solid wine and shows that their wines need the time and mistakenly and more often than usual ( akin to Napa Cabs) are drunk too early. 94

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• Javachip Likes this wine: 96 points

  July 29, 2023 - Allowed to breathe in bottle 1 hour. Clear deep garnet - inky violet, youthful appearance. Bright fresh blackberries, sour black cherries, blueberries, violets, sandalwood, leather, cardamom, stony soil. Full body, seamless, beautiful balance. Superb. My #1, group's FIRST PLACE among reds tonight.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer Tenuta dell'Ornellaia
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Ornellaia
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Tuscany
• SubRegion Bolgheri
• Appellation Bolgheri Superiore
• UPC Codes 084692493043, 084692493067, 400007224704, 8032732221738, 818201020334, 877397001237, 877397001923, 877397002142, 877397002302, 877397004641

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• Pending Delivery 20 (0%)
• In Cellars 3,121 (60%)
• Consumed 2,036 (39%)

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