Winemaker Notes
Blend: 50% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20%Cabernet Franc.
Orma is a powerful red wine that matches wonderfully with full-flavored dishes, particularly those based around game and roasts. However the wine's delicate layers of flavor coupled with purity offruit make it an ideal companion to ripe cheeses, or simply as a Vino da Meditazione as well.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A gorgeous, sleek wine with super-polished tannins and fabulous fruit. It's full but so refined and sexy. It goes on for minutes. Really fine. What a wine. This Bordeaux blend from here is the best ever. Better in 2016 but great now.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2011 Orma (Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc) is a fantastic wine that excels on all levels. It shows integrity, intensity and generosity at impressively high levels. This was a warm vintage but the wine still offers an impeccable sense of balance and profound inner beauty. Morello cherry, dried blackberry, leather, tobacco and spice enter the equation. Orma delivers soft tannins and a lingering sense of richness and density.
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Wine Enthusiast
This full-bodied blend of 50% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Cabernet Franc offers aromas of ripe black-skinned fruit, crushed Mediterranean herbs, scorched earth and tobacco. The dense palate doles out black cherries, red currants, cedar, anise and mocha alongside ample, velvety tannins. Drink 2016–2021.
Legendary in Italy for its Renaissance art and striking landscape, Tuscany is also home to many of the country’s best red wines. Sangiovese reigns supreme here, as either the single varietal, or a dominant player, in almost all of Tuscany’s best.
A remarkable Chianti, named for its region of origin, will have a bright acidity, supple tannins and plenty of cherry fruit character. From the hills and valleys surrounding the medieval village of Montalcino, come the distinguished and age-worthy wines based on Brunello (Sangiovese). Earning global acclaim since the 1970s, the Tuscan Blends are composed solely of international grape varieties or a mix of international and Sangiovese. The wine called Vine Nobile di Montepulciano, composed of Prognolo Gentile (Sangiovese) and is recognized both for finesse and power.