2001 Onellaia 1.5L
Dinner: 1. Pasta with mushrooms and truffles 2. Cold seafood: an oyster, raw scallops, cooked but chilled lobster and a giant shrimp 3. 14 ounce ribeye After 5 hours decanted and several sips I can now properly review this wine. Nose of meadow fields, wet...
Great wine with great food...
....a perfect match! An appropriate decant time for a magnum ,especially when it enables the wine to show its development. I am a fan of Ornellaia ,which is sometimes underrated, but comes top with elegance. What an enjoyable repast you have!
Thank you my friend. I am dabbling in good Tuscans between Bordeaux and Burgundy. To me…
The 2004 Ornellaia bested the 2001, but it is a very fine wine. It changes from vintage to vintage, but between Solaia, Sassicaia and Ornellaia I think they compete with Bordeaux’ super seconds plus Palmer. And on its finest years can hold fort with a fir...
Ha! Truth is I would get a quarter glass on special occasions in my youth. My dad's cellar was robbed in the late 1980's or early 90's and he never replaced it .So...
perhaps some of my passion is making up for that loss.
Agreed,it's comparable to top claret in good vintages.
my personal favourite was the '98 i drank a few years ago,pure hedonism ...
