Ornus Dell'Ornellaia 2019 (375ML)

95 JS / 94 JD / 94 WA / 94 VM

A gorgeous sweet wine that brings a smile to your face. Dried apricots and flowers with peach pie on the nose. Full-bodied with medium sweetness and phenolic tension that gives you a firm and persistent mouth-feel. It tightens on the finish. Medium-sweet finish. Lovely acidity. Drink now.—James Suckling

A dessert wine built on 100% Petit Manseng, the 2019 Ornus Dell'Ornellaia is a ripe, exotic effort offering notes of honeyed mango, candied orange, caramelized grapefruit, and brioche aromas and flavors. More medium to full-bodied on the palate, it's light on its feet and graceful, with notable freshness and purity. It's going to be incredibly versatile as a dessert wine and, I suspect, age for decades, although there's no need to delay gratification either.—Jeb Dunnuck

Packaged in its distinctive amphorae-shaped 375-milliliter bottle, the Ornellaia 2019 Ornus dell'Ornellaia (made with late-harvest Petit Manseng) shows a shiny golden color with polished copper highlights. The wine is redolent of sweet honey, dried apricot, jasmine and a touch of lemon blossom or bergamot. The mouthfeel is glycerine-rich and creamy, with a pretty heaviness that is packed with sweetness, fruit and the necessary acidity to invite sip after sip. This dessert wine is a lot of fun.—Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate

The 2019 Ornus dell’Ornellaia, 100% Petit Manseng, is a gorgeous sweet wine. Candied apricot, passionfruit, orange jam, honey, spice and ginger lend notable complexity throughout. The 2019 is quite deep and intense, but with no excess weight. This is an especially fine edition. –Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media