Masseto

Masseto is one of Italy’s most coveted and collectible wines, a single-vineyard Merlot from the coastal hills of Bolgheri in Tuscany. Conceived in the mid‑1980s on the then‑little‑known Ornellaia estate founded by Marchese Lodovico Antinori, the project took shape when legendary consultant André Tchelistcheff identified a small slope of blue‑grey clay as uniquely suited to Merlot rather than the Cabernet Sauvignon that dominated other Super Tuscans. The first experimental bottling came from the 1986 harvest, with t…