2021 Masseto Massetino

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Type of Wine Red
Country Italy
Region Tuscany
Winery Tenuta dell Ornellaia
Year 2021
Grape Cabernet Franc Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot
Content (Alc) 0.75 ltr (14%)
Drink window 2025 - 2045
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Now that Masseto has a new home it makes perfect sense that the brand would introduce a sibling and from the 2017 vintage the release of the second Masseto wine - the Masseto Massetino was born around the same time as the stunning new winery was unveiled.

The Masseto 2021 Massetino is mostly Merlot with a hint of Cabernet Franc thrown in for good measure. The wine is very richly concentrated and layered. You see (and taste) the luscious texture of the wine as it slowly covers the glass. Quality fruit is combined with carefully selected oak, and the intensity of both builds on the taste. This vintage is ready for a particularly long maturation in the cellar. This vintage from Massetino (2021) scores neck-in-neck with the current vintage (2020) from Masseto.

FACT: The Masseto Massetino is also a wine that is only distributed via the Place du Bordeaux where we as Grandcru wines can purchase directly. Be very wary of fake bottles of which there are many more on the market than the official Masseto, so always buy this iconic wine from an official wine merchant. In the Tab: Appendix you will find the official fact sheet of this beautiful wine. We will send it to you automatically when you order this wine. The wine is in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you pick up the wine you will also receive a nice discount. We are almost next to the Rijksweg with plenty of parking. Click here for address.

Vineyard for 2021 Masseto Massetino

Lodovico Antinori already had a head start at birth. The Antinoris have been among the Florentine merchant nobility for centuries and already joined the wine buyers' guild in 1385. Since then, there has always been one member of the family in the wine trade. The family estates in Tuscany were greatly expanded in the 18th and 19th centuries and the family gained a lot of experience in the winery. At the beginning of this century, she founded an influential trading company. Marquis Lodovico worked for a while in the family business, but decided to go his own way in the early 1980s. He created an extensive vineyard on Tenuta dell'Ornelllaia, a family estate in Bolgheri on the Mediterranean, 96 km from Florence.

This part of the Maremma not only has a beautiful wild nature, but is also a fertile agricultural area, a region with great potential for wine production. Lodovico's uncle, Marquis Incisa della Rochetta, had already drawn Bolgheri's attention to the wine world with his pioneering work on Tenuta San Guido and with his Sassiciaia, now regarded as one of the world's greatest red wines.

Lodovico Antinori followed in his uncle's footsteps in nearby Ornellaia, although he makes a completely different type of wine. He learned from a number of international wine authorities that the character of the Bolgheri soil resembled that of St.-Émilion and Pomerol in Bordeaux was ideal for the production of quality wine. The special feature of the Ornellaia vineyard - for Italian standards - is the high percentage of merlot. The assembly for Antinori's top wine, the red Ornellaia, contains 40% merlot. However, this grape comes into its own best at the vigna veccia (old vines) of the winery. Since 1987, this plot has supplied the raw material for a 100% Merlot cuvée called the Masseto. The grapes for this wine have been picked under a sunny September sky. After the long fermentation of 18-20 days, the wine is naturally transferred to tanks. After which a maturing process in new Barriques. The result is a wine with structure, very pure fruit and a beautiful balance.

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Type of Wine Red
Country Italy
Region Tuscany
Icons Icon Italy
Winery Tenuta dell Ornellaia
Grape Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Biological certified No
Natural wine No
Vegan No
Year 2021
Drinking as of 2025
Drinking till 2045
Alcohol % 14
Alcohol free/low No
Content 0.75 ltr
Oak aging Yes
Sparkling No
Dessert wine No
Closure Cork
Parker rating 96
James Suckling rating 96
Tasting Profiles Complex, Dry, Aged on wood, Powerful, Red fruit, Tannines, Full
Drink moments Indruk maken, Lekker luxe
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