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Wine
Reviews |
Wine
Ratings & Price Guide
I score for quality out of 100. For further
details of what these scores mean and, lets be honest, my own preferences,
so that you can interpret them. click
here. Pricing is given as a guide only For further info on the various
brackets click here.
Importers - Contact details for Irish
importers |
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| Tenta
dell'Ornellaia Tasting August 2003 |
| Importer
Woodford Bourne (01-404-7300) hosted a tasting of Marchese Lodovico
Antinori's Tenuta Dell'Ornellaia wines at Dublin's Ely Wine Bar. The wines are
famously expensive and traded at auction but are they any good. Well, yes
and no. For the full story see my Free
Run diary. UK agent is John Armit I think. |
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Poggio
Alle Gazze 2001
Last vintage of Ornellaia’s sauvignon blanc and with no more to offer
than a little herbaceous character, some melon fruit and an outrageous
price I can see why.
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€23-24.00
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86
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Le
Volte, 2001
Herbal and coffee notes on the nose with prune too but he
palate is firm and sour to the point of astringency. Maybe time will tame
it.
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€18-19.00
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83
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Le
Serre Nuove dell Ornellaia 1999
Inviting black olive, blackcurrant and cherry nose lead to a rich palate
to which tannins add weigh and length.
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€40.00
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91
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Le
Serre Nuove dell Ornellaia 2000
Perfumed nose with violets and ripe cherry – almost Margaux like.
Palate is rich with ripe tannins and cherry, hers and cedar spice
and good length.
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€40.00
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89
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Ornellaia
1999
Tight nose showing a little prune and spice but palate is a cracker with
rich plum, prune and tar surrounded but firm but ripe tannins that give
great length and focus. Drink 2006 – 2020.
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€110
– 115.00
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93
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Ornellaia
2000
Hedonistic and seductive wine oozing blackcurrant, cherry, herbs and spice
with the kind of silky rich long palate that puts one in mind of great
Pomerol or Burgundy. Drink now 2015.
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€110
– 115.00
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95
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Masseto
How to rate this wine? It’s intense to the point of being painful with
raisin and chocolate fruit but the alcohol burns and that makes it seem
clumsy and unbalanced to me but maybe not you. Perhaps time will mellow
it. Drink 2006 - 2020
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€170.00
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88
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