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Ornellaia

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Petit Verdot
Tracked vintages
39
Community notes
72
Merchant offers
156

What we know about this wine

Critics
98/ 1002023 vintage
Real drinkers
93/ 10072 notes, every vintage
Market price
£145per 75 cl2023 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
Drinking window
2026–2050drinking2022 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.

Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet. Style: Bolgheri red.

Body5.0 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin4.0 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.0 / 5
DrySweet
  • Spice · menthol
  • Earth · balsamic
  • Oak · cedar, tobacco
  • Black fruit · black cherry, blackcurrant

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.

Realised in-bond trades£77–£247GBP per 75 cl · 31 priced vintages

1986One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Every score below is a critic score.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside its stated window
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2021
98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2021
drinking, window 2026–2066
Lowest price
1993
£77 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Ornellaia monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£100£2002023£1452021£1902020£1862019£1302018£1502017£1382016£1402015£1262014£1492013£1482012£1342011£1502010£2102009£1762008£1722007£2202006£2062004£1712003£1162002£952001£1652000£1721999£1281998£2111997£1271996£1711995£1011993£771990£2471988£1551986£175

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Ornellaia monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 2 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Ornellaia monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2023£14597.8—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2021£19098.2Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2024
2020£18697Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, December 2025
2019£13097.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2018£15096Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, February 2024
2017£13896.7Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
2016£14096.9Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, February 2026
2015£12696.3Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2014£14993.8Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023
2013£14895.8Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
2012£13494.8Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2011£15094.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2010£21096Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2009£17695.4Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2008£17295Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2007£22097Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
2006£20696.1Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
2004£17195.8Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019
2003£11693.3Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2016
2002£9592.3Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2016
2001£16595.7Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, May 2017
2000£17292.5Noper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2019
1999£12895.5Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018
1998£21195Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2021
1997£12795.1Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2016
1996£17192.9Noper 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, October 2022
1995£10193.3Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2015
1993£7790Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2015
1990£24794.8Noper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2018
1988£15592.7Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
1986£17592—per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016

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