Incanto
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic Tuscan wild boar ragù, prime dry-aged Florentine steak (Bistecca alla Fiorentina), or aged Pecorino cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the prestigious Bolgheri coast in Tuscany, Ornellaia is a cornerstone of the Super Tuscan movement. While renowned for its flagship Bordeaux-style blend, the estate celebrates the unique personality of specific vintages through its 'Vendemmia d'Artista' series, where 'L'Incanto' (The Enchantment) was selected to capture the spellbinding harmony of the estate's terroir. This red wine is crafted from a meticulous selection of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot, grown on complex soils of marine, alluvial, and volcanic origin. Blessed by the moderating Mediterranean breezes and intense Tuscan sunlight, the grapes are hand-harvested, individually fermented by parcel, and aged for up to 18 months in French oak barriques, resulting in a wine of extraordinary complexity, structure, and elegance.
🍾 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.