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Tenuta Dell'Ornellaia is an Italian winery in the DOC Bolgheri in Toscana, known as a producer of Super Tuscan wine. Ornellaia is considered one of Italy's top Bordeaux-style red wines. The estate also produces a second wine, Le Serre Nuove, the blend Le Volte, the Merlot varietal wine Masseto, in addition to estate production of grappa and olive oil.
Tenuta Dell'Ornellaia was established by Marchese Lodovico Antinori of the Antoniori family, behind one of Italy's most historic negociant firms, with the help of winemaker Tibor Gál. The property is adjacent to Tenuta San Guido. producer of Sassicaia and considered the seminal Super Tuscan, and Ornellaia was suggested to be Lodovico Antinori’s competitive answer to his cousin Nicolò Incisa’s Sassicaia and his older brother Piero Antinori’s Solaia. The vineyards of the Ornellaia estate were planted in 1981, producing the first vintage in 1985. A modern winery was built in 1987, and a second 56 hectare property was later added, Bellaria, situated north of Bolgheri. (Full article...)