Archivio Storico
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-roasted lamb shoulder with rosemary, classic Florentine steak (Bistecca alla Fiorentina), and rich wild boar ragu served over pappardelle.
✨ Technical Specifications
Ornellaia's 'Archivio Storico' (Historical Archive) represents the pinnacle of the estate's library releases, offering collectors pristine bottles of their legendary Bolgheri Superiore that have been aged undisturbed in the winery's private cellars. Founded in 1981 by Marchese Lodovico Antinori in the maritime hills of Bolgheri, Tuscany, Ornellaia helped redefine Italian winemaking. This wine is a classic Bordeaux-style blend dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, supported by Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The terroir of Bolgheri, with its unique combination of marine breezes, intense sunlight, and complex soils of clay, sand, and volcanic gravel, imparts a distinctive Mediterranean elegance and structure. Each bottle of Archivio Storico is a testament to the estate's history, hand-packaged and certified to guarantee its perfect provenance and extraordinary evolution over decades.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1981 by Marchese Lodovico Antinori and guided today under the stewardship of the Frescobaldi family with Technical Director Marco Balsimelli, Ornellaia stands as a pillar of coastal Tuscan viticulture. Situated near Bolgheri along the Tyrrhenian seaboard, the estate commands around 100 hectares of meticulously mapped vineyards. Soils reflect a mosaic of marine gravel, clay, loam, and limestone, nourished by generous maritime sunlight and tempered by cooling coastal breezes sweeping down from the Colline Metallifere. Viticulture adheres to rigorous sustainable standards, certified through Equalitas, championing parcel-level diversity and biodiversity. Ornellaia's winemaking philosophy centers on precise vinification of individual micro-plots in stainless steel and concrete before barrel maturation in fine-grained French oak. The estate's namesake grand vin, Bolgheri DOC Superiore Ornellaia, blends Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot with structural nobility and opulence, alongside benchmark bottlings such as Le Serre Nuove dell'Ornellaia, Poggio alle Gazze, and the legendary single-vineyard Merlot, Masseto.
🍇 Grapes
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Syrah, Petit Verdot