Ornellaia 2005

Ornellaia 2005

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  • Jane Anson rating 95
  • Vinous rating 94
  • Robert Parker rating 93
  • Jancis Robinson rating 18
Ornellaia 2005
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75 cl

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£315.00
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Ornellaia is renowned as one of Italy’s premier producers and shows remarkable consistency. The 2005 is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot. Ready to drink this shows classy definition in its wild berry fruit, spice and graphitey minerality. Understated but refined.
95 Jane Anson
So effortless, balanced, melted tannins, understated but powerful in all the right places, all the building blocks are here for a truly classic Ornellaia that is delicious at 20 years old, but will keep on going for another decade at least. This was a relatively cool vintage, and it comes through in the floral nuance that expands through the palate. 70% new oak for ageing, Axel Heinz director. There is symmetry in tasting this wine right now - the first vintage of Ornellaia came in 1985, making this 20 years on, and now 20 years old.Jane Anson6th November 2025
94 Vinous
The 2005 Ornellaia opens with striking, compelling aromatics that draw the taster in. Still deep, rich and intense throughout, the 2005 has held up beautifully. Sweet herbs, tobacco, spices, sage and plums add shades of dimension to a core of super-ripe, exotic fruit that is one of the vestiges of a late-ripening vintage in which the fruit was allowed to hang until the very end. The 2005 remains an infant. It should drink well for another 15+ years. Antonio Galloni1st December 2015
18 Jancis Robinson
Such a beautiful, perfumed nose! Nuanced, sculpted; swirls of blueberry, chocolate and coffee. Tremendously elegant, finely cut and glamorous – would grace any catwalk. Aristocratic poise displaying long-legged cashmere-clad tannins. So long. So very long. (TC)Tamlyn Currin17th March 2010

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A Legendary Super Tuscan

Founded in 1981 by Marchese Lodovico Antinori, the wines of the Ornellaia estate show remarkable consistency and are rightly considered an Italian great. Famed for its legendary Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated Super Tuscan wine (blended with a smaller percentage of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot), the Tenuta dell'Ornellaia lies near Bolgheri in Tuscany, on the Mediterranean coast. Renowned winemaker Axel Heinz was first appointed in 2002.

Starting with the release of the 2006 vintage in 2009, Ornellaia has produced the highly coveted Vendemmia d'Artista series; a celebration of the unique character of each new vintage in which a contemporary artist creates a work of art and a series of limited edition labels drawing inspiration from the single word chosen by the winemaker to describe the character of the new vintage. Celebrated contemporary artists have included Shirin Neshat, William Kentridge and Ernesto Neto.

The Ornellaia estate also produces a beautiful white wine, Ornellaia Bianco, which is a white blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Viognier; the superb Sauvignon Blanc-dominant Poggio alle Gazze; a beautiful red Mediterranean expression known as Le Volte dell'Ornellaia; the 'second' red wine, Le Serre Nuove dell’Ornellaia and a late harvest Petit Manseng sweet wine known as Ornus.

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