Tenuta Dell'Ornellaia Masseto, Toscana IGT

Italy's answer to Pétrus. Masseto is a pure merlot from a single 7-hectare plot on the Ornellaia estate in Bolgheri — a wine of extraordinary concentration, complexity and longevity that has, over four decades, established itself as one of Italy's two or three most important bottles. The clay-rich soils of the Masseto hill produce a merlot unlike any other in Italy — structured, mineral and built for decades of ageing. Its standing in the global fine wine market is, at this point, beyond question.