Masseto 2022 Tenuta dell' Ornellaia

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (97)

Currently on the market, the 2022 Masseto is 100% Merlot grown on the estate’s distinctive blue clay soils. The wine immediately impresses with freshness, brightness and clarity. It shows firm but integrated tannins with a subtle salty note attributed to sodium-rich clays. According to proprietor Lamberto Frescobaldi, the magic of Masseto lies in its ability to stretch and consolidate across the palate, wrapping itself seamlessly in a kind of symbiosis that feels both expansive and complete. His point comes alive in this edition. Crafted for collectors, this vintage is intense and full yet never tiring, remaining solar and generous. The élevage is deliberately restrained with reduced wood influence despite the use of four coopers, including tonnelleries Taransaud and Baron, and 80% new oak, allowing the Merlot to remain dulcet and precise.

James Suckling (97)

A solid and structured red with blackcurrant, chocolate and walnut aromas and underlying toasted wood. Medium- to full-bodied with chewy tannins and a chewy, savory finish. Hints of coconut and toasted oak. It’s muscular and toned. It needs time to soften.

Falstaff (98)

Brilliant, powerful ruby colour with a slight purple tinge. Opens with notes of cigar box, then plenty of cassis and blackberry, cardamom on the finish. Round and supple on the palate, like pure velvet, opens with lots of fine-meshed tannins, great depth, lots of fruit on the finish, with tobacco flavours.