This is an Italian jewel, definitely one of my favourite wines outside Bordeaux. The 2005 Tenuta dell’Ornellaia Le Serre Nuove from the Bolgheri appellation in Tuscany, Italy, is this month’s WOTM. It has a big strapping body, a little oily on the palette with dark ripe fruit; highly recommended by the Bad Man.
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Archive > October 2009
WOTM – Wine of the Month [09/10] – Tenuta dell’Ornellaia Bolgheri 2005
WOTM – Wine of the Month [09/09] – Chateau Moulinat Haut-Médoc 2005
This epistle is late because I was in Japan, where I was fortunate enough to spend time with fellow members Hamakko and his yet-to-be-named-but-definitely-in-the-club girlfriend. Enjoying a superb wine tasting most every night for my duration, one particular evening’s sampling featured a pair of Bordeaux in an ongoing battle we called the Left Bank/Right Bank [...]