2015 Ornellaia Bolgheri Superiore, Vendemmia d'Artista Special Edition, “Il Carisma”, Tuscany, Bottle (750ml)
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98AG98JS
Critic key
AG = Antonio GalloniJS = James Suckling
- Rating
- AG98/JS98
- Producer
- Ornellaia
- Vintage
- 2015
- Region
- Tuscany
- Appellation
- Bolgheri
- Country
- Italy
- Format
- Bottle
- Volume
- 750mL
- ABV
- 14.0
- Type
- Still
- Color
- Red
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Product Description
AG98 "The 2015 Ornellaia is a dream wine with magnificent balance. All the elements are in the right place. In most vintages, Ornellaia needs time to fully come together, but the 2015 is just impeccable, even in the early going. The warm vintage notwithstanding, winemaker Axel Heinz crafted and Ornellaia is more about finesse and power. The potent, bruising tannins Ornellaia can show as a young wine are nowhere to be found. Bright raspberry jam, mint, white flowers and pomegranate are some of the many notes that punctuate the finish in a memorable Ornellaia that will go down among the great vintages produced at this reference-point estate." AG for VM
The character of Ornellaia 2015, the tenth edition of Vendemmia d’Artista, was “Il Carisma”. William Kentridge was the artist chosen to interpret “Il Carisma”. The central theme of William Kentridge’s artwork for Ornellaia “Il Carisma” is the harvest and the moment when wine is made. “The shears are a memory of a grape harvest experience in Tuscany, when I spent six months in San Casciano, just outside Florence, with my family. It made me understand the human effort behind winemaking, although what struck me the most were the flavours of the lunch in the vineyards made by the farmer’s wife. Profound flavours obtained through the combination of work and terroir. The aspects of winemaking that combine manual and mechanized processes evoked the transformation of humans into machines and machines into workers.
William Kentridge is a South African artist who is internationally renowned for his drawings, films, sculptures, animations and plays, in which he turns key political events into powerful and poetic allegories. Since the 1970s, William Kentridge has developed outstanding work rooted in progressive theatre and politically engaged art forms dating to the early twentieth century, a trajectory of modernism that remains connected to the figurative arts as a way of reflecting the world. Having spent his childhood in Johannesburg during apartheid and witnessed the collapse of the regime, Kentridge was deeply influenced by the social and political scenario in South Africa, but his observations act as allegories of the human condition and the world at large.
The character of Ornellaia 2015, the tenth edition of Vendemmia d’Artista, was “Il Carisma”. William Kentridge was the artist chosen to interpret “Il Carisma”. The central theme of William Kentridge’s artwork for Ornellaia “Il Carisma” is the harvest and the moment when wine is made. “The shears are a memory of a grape harvest experience in Tuscany, when I spent six months in San Casciano, just outside Florence, with my family. It made me understand the human effort behind winemaking, although what struck me the most were the flavours of the lunch in the vineyards made by the farmer’s wife. Profound flavours obtained through the combination of work and terroir. The aspects of winemaking that combine manual and mechanized processes evoked the transformation of humans into machines and machines into workers.
William Kentridge is a South African artist who is internationally renowned for his drawings, films, sculptures, animations and plays, in which he turns key political events into powerful and poetic allegories. Since the 1970s, William Kentridge has developed outstanding work rooted in progressive theatre and politically engaged art forms dating to the early twentieth century, a trajectory of modernism that remains connected to the figurative arts as a way of reflecting the world. Having spent his childhood in Johannesburg during apartheid and witnessed the collapse of the regime, Kentridge was deeply influenced by the social and political scenario in South Africa, but his observations act as allegories of the human condition and the world at large.