In fact, I went back to taste the wine 12 hours later, and they had already softened considerably. You feel the oak tannins on the finish with toast and vanilla that will certainly shed as the wine ages. Those distinctive notes of macchia mediterranea (wild bush) that I always associate with Masseto are less present in this vintage. If concerned that the hot vintage would draw out too many ripe fruit tones, the oak serves to soften some of the more volatile components of the fruit. Perhaps, what this vintage lacks is that profound varietal character that we saw in recent vintages like 20.
I tasted this wine next to the decidedly more playful Massetino, and the Masseto moves over the palate with substantial fruit weight and concentration gained over the course of this hot and dry growing season (which produced smaller, richer and more compact berries). It is sold on TWIL at 690.19 per bottle of 75cl, from the minimum of 1 bottle(s). It is powerful, but that's always the case with Masseto (this vintage records a 15.5% alcohol content).
Like most vintages of Masseto tasted this early in the game, the oak is omnipresent, and it grounds the wine in terms of texture and structure. The wine then goes into bottle for 12 months before its release. Fermentation kicks off in a combination of steel and oak tanks before the wine is racked over to barrique, where it rests for two years. This wine was made in the old winery (the existing Ornellaia winery). The wine Massetino 2020 from Masseto has 21 offers online and is on sale at a minimum price 404 with an average price of 497. The center of the vineyard now is home to the new Masseto winery and an adjacent tasting room built into a pre-existing farmhouse. That ideal position opens the vineyards to soft breezes, proximity to the sea, long daylight hours and cool diurnal shifts from the protective wall of low mountains at the back. The vines are planted at an altitude of 80 to 100 meters above sea level in blue clay soils that are unique to Bolgheri.
This special site is located at the base of the mountains that rise gently from the Tyrrhenian Sea, with the picturesque silhouette of the Castiglioncello castle at the top. The Masseto vineyard is a triangular-shaped plot tucked in at the back of the same property that houses the Ornellaia vineyards and winery. Rich and ripe, it’s a perfect introduction to one of the world’s great terroirs." The Masseto 2017 Masseto puts on another exhilarating, knock-out performance for the third year in a row. Massetino, like Masseto, is treated like a priceless Pomerol: It’s hand-harvested, hand-sorted and destemmed, fermented mostly in concrete tanks, with grapes from a few parcels going into barrel instead, and aged a total of 24 months in 100% new oak. Now owned by the iconic Frescobaldi family, not much at Masseto has changed. The second wine to the iconic Masseto, Massetino shares its sibling’s prestige and critical acclaim: Wine Advocate lauded it as “a special treat.” Comprising Merlot and Cabernet Franc grown on the same precious plot of blue clay, the 2020 is impenetrably dark, endlessly complex, and poised to evolve for a decade and a half in the cellar. Finally, in 1984, he followed Tchelistcheff’s advice, and the Masseto hill was planted-purely to Merlot.
Antinori was ambivalent, since Merlot was all but unheard of in Tuscany. Lodovico Antinori’s inspiration for his first Bordeaux-style wine was his own cousin’s Sassicaia, so he set about creating a competitor that would also consist largely of Cabernet Sauvignon.īut his property, Tenuta dell’Ornellaia, had one anomalous 17-acre section: a hilltop that Tchelistcheff knew wasn’t ideal for Cabernet Sauvignon. The hill was planted to Merlot in the 1980s at the direction of legendary winemaker André Tchelistcheff, and now, with winemaking overseen by Right Bank Bordeaux guru Michel Rolland, Masseto stands equal to any collectible wine in the world. On a visit to the legendary Ornellaia estate last year, we were awestruck by the Masseto hill, where the vineyards produce some of the most precious and ageworthy wine on the planet.
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