La Vitalita
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2034
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-braised wild boar ragù, roasted rack of lamb infused with rosemary and garlic, or a classic Florentine T-bone steak.
✨ Technical Specifications
Ornellaia 'La Vitalità' represents the celebrated 2018 edition of the estate's legendary Bolgheri DOC Superiore, released under their prestigious Vendemmia d'Artista project. For this vintage, Belgian artist Jan Fabre was commissioned to capture the theme of 'La Vitalità' (Vitality) to honor the remarkably vibrant, harmonious, and energetic character of the growing season. Born in the maritime hills of Bolgheri along the Tuscan coast, where ancient alluvial soils, marine clay, and cooling Mediterranean breezes converge, this iconic Bordeaux-style blend typically marries Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. Each vineyard parcel is vinified separately before undergoing meticulous blending and aging for roughly 18 months in French oak barriques, followed by an additional year of refinement in the bottle. This process yields a wine of profound complexity, seamless structure, and a spirited longevity that echoes the artistic vision of its name.
🍾 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