Ornellaia Bianco 2022 Wine (75cl)

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This complex wine brings ripe fruit aromas such as peach and mango, paired with elegant almond blossom and toast nuances. These opulent and enticing flavors accompany a rich mouthfeel. The impeccable harmony among the various parts is testimony to a balanced wine that finishes on a savory and upbeat note. A tight and focused white with aromas of minerals, dried apples, lemons and touches of sea salt, lemongrass and light, fresh seaweed. It's medium-bodied with fresh fruit and a minerally finish. The 2022 Ornellaia is a touch more straw/yellow-hued in the glass and is 100% Sauvignon Blanc from Bellaria Vineyard, Made from two or three different plots of the vineyard, it is raised in barriques, with 20% new oak. The nose has more minerality, with aromas of wet stones, delicate flint, riper tropical fresh peaches, delicate, sweet tropical flowers, and a kiss of vanilla. It has lovely extract and a silky, rounded texture on the palate as well as balanced ripeness and a long finish. Made with 100% Sauvignon Blanc, the Ornellaia 2022 Bolgheri Bianco Ornellaia reflects a hotter vintage through a broader, more opulent expression, offering honeyed tones, stone fruit, cantaloupe melon and a distinctly yellow-fruited profile with notable richness and viscosity. Sourced from rocky limestone soils with clay lying deep underground, the wine is released three years after harvest to allow the variety to move beyond its initial phase of youthful fragrance and exuberance, though in this vintage, the overall impression remains dense and somewhat static in my view. The wine has gone from being an IGT Toscana to a Bolgheri Bianco.