Le Volte is Ornellaia’s entry-level Toscana IGT wine, produced from the Bolgheri estate’s younger vine Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with the addition of Sangiovese, in a style designed for approachability and generous fruit character in the medium term. Ornellaia itself needs no introduction: the Bolgheri estate is one of Italy’s most consistently celebrated fine wine addresses, producing its eponymous Grand Vin from the finest parcels of the Masseto plateau and surrounding vineyards and achieving critical recognition across all major publications at the very highest level. Le Volte is positioned explicitly as Ornellaia’s accessible range, providing the house’s house style and winemaking quality in a format that offers everyday pleasure at a fraction of the Grand Vin’s price, and it benefits directly from the same estate vineyard base and the same technical team responsible for the most celebrated wines in the range.

The 2022 Tuscan growing season was warm and concentrated, producing wines of excellent aromatic richness and deep colour across the Bolgheri appellation, and Le Volte’s blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Sangiovese in this vintage should reflect the warmth and generosity that the vintage consistently delivered in the best sites. Ornellaia’s vineyard management expertise, its biodynamic approach and its investment in precision viticulture across the estate benefits even the Le Volte lots, ensuring that the wine’s fruit character is as clean and expressive as the estate’s philosophy can deliver at this price level. The 2022 Le Volte is aged in a combination of French and American barriques with a proportion of second and third fill, ensuring oak integration without excessive grip or extraction.

Le Volte fills a genuinely useful role in this catalogue: a Bolgheri wine from one of Italy’s most famous fine wine addresses, in a vintage of very good quality, at a price that allows regular drinking and experimentation alongside the more serious Ornellaia expressions. For those who seek the estate’s house character and the quality guarantee of the Ornellaia name in an everyday format, Le Volte is the obvious and sensible choice.

Ruby with a fresh and generous nose of blackcurrant, cherry, plum, cedar, warm herbs and light vanilla spice. Medium-bodied with approachable tannins, good natural acidity and a clean, fruit-forward finish of genuine pleasure and drinkability. Drink now through 2028.