2016 Tenuta Dell’Ornellaia Ornellaia
2016 Tenuta Dell’Ornellaia Ornellaia 2016 represents another immensely successful vintage highlighting all the virtues of Bolgheri’s climate: abundant sunshine without excessive heat, a dry summer to allow the grapes to achieve perfect ripeness and concentration, and just about enough rain to avoid stress. All these elements combine to yield a wine that shows lush ripeness and crisp firmness, opposing forces creating a certain raciness we like to describe as ‘tension’.
“A particularly dark and young colour is the prelude to a complex nose of black berries, spices and cedar. The palate is rich and dense, balanced by a refined and firm tannic structure, lifted by a juicy and bright acidity.” – Olga Fusari – Winemaker – July 2018
For the 11th edition of Ornellaia Vendemmia d’Artista, it is the American artist Shirin Neshat that interprets the character of Ornellaia 2016 – “La Tensione” (tension); with her disruptive and poetic visual language, the photographer, filmmaker and video-artist alludes to this vintage’s dynamism and strength through the words of the illustrious 11th century Persian poet, Omar Khayyam.The artist has created a site-specific masterpiece for the Estate, customized a limited series of 111 large format bottles, and designed a special label that, a single example of which, will be found in each Ornellaia case containing 6 bottles of 750ml.
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