A powerful yet refined Super Tuscan from a celebrated vintage. Layers of cassis, dark chocolate, smoke, and spice are carried by firm, velvety tannins and fresh acidity. Full-bodied, structured, and elegant, with a long, chalky finish. A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc that captures the depth of Bolgheri’s terroir.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 98
Published: Feb 5, 2025

A restrained and earthy wine with well-defined cassis, milk chocolate, underbrush and smoke aromas. It’s full-bodied with a firm, mid-palate mouthfeel and muscular yet perfectly woven tannins. It’s elegant in the finish, with fresh acidity balancing the warmth. Drinkable now, but best in the next ten years.

Decanter | D 96
Published: Feb 14, 2019
Drink: 2020-2040

2015 is a celebrated vintage due to its powerful character. Considerable warmth produced extremely thick-skinned grapes, and the harvest for Ornellaia started in the middle of September with Merlot from Ginestraio, continuing on to the first week of October for Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc from Bellaria: such is the skeleton of this wine. It's showing generous cassis fruit with meat, leather and vanilla notes, alongside some dark cigar leaf and spice in depth. The palate is full and velvety with a chalky finish - a powerful Ornellaia to cellar, yet not without suppleness.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 14.00%
Body: Full
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 15% Cabernet Franc 55% Cabernet Sauvignon 25% Merlot

The Wine Advocate | RP 93?
Published: Sep 6, 2018
Drink: 2019-2029

The 2015 Bolgheri Superiore Ornellaia is a dark, exuberant and opulent wine that is teeming with flavor, ripeness and extract. That said, there is also a note of impurity that I only really locked in on when I went back to taste the wine at different time intervals later in the day and the next. To be clear, it was there upon first examination, but then it blew off. And then it came back. That game of hide and seek proved distracting and puzzling. I wondered if it was cork or barrel, although it did not behave like any of those things, and my doubt is recorded by the question mark next to my score. Once you get past that little blemish, you are instantly aware of the beauty and depth of the vintage. The wine is savory in terms of aromas and sweet in terms of tannins. Cabernet Sauvignon flavors of dried blackberry, toasted espresso and cured tobacco play leading roles.

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Ornellaia is a blend of nature and musing. Complex ancient soils converse through human wisdom with a delicate microclimate that is echoed and reflected in the Mediterranean Sea. Prolonged ageing accompanies the estate’s fine wine in achieving its utmost expression, revealing finesse and generosity over time.

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“Wines from great vintages know how to stand out without making a noise: balance is their inner light. Ornellaia 2015 displays refined tannins and the long finish ends with finely spiced notes.” Axel Heinz – Estate Director - May 2017