Carisma
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted rack of lamb with rosemary, slow-braised beef short ribs, or aged Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Ornellaia's 'Carisma' represents the celebrated 2015 vintage of their flagship Bolgheri DOC Superiore, bottled under the estate's 'Vendemmia d'Artista' project to mark its milestone 30th vintage. This legendary Super Tuscan is a classic Bordeaux-style blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. The grapes are harvested from Bolgheri's unique mosaic of marine, alluvial, and volcanic soils, benefiting from the cooling Mediterranean breezes. Each parcel is vinified separately before undergoing aging for 18 months in French oak barriques, followed by further refinement in the bottle. The theme 'Il Carisma' (Charisma) was chosen to capture the vintage's profound harmony, structure, and magnetic personality, reflecting the estate's historical dedication to producing wines of unparalleled elegance and power.
🍾 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