Italy · In the cellar
Masseto
1996 · 2004 · 2016
- Origin
- Bolgheri, Tuscan coast
- Grape
- Merlot
- Vintages held
- 1996 · 2004 · 2016
- Delivery
- Insured and temperature-controlled to Switzerland
Quoted on request. We do not publish prices, and quantities are often one.
Seven hectares of blue clay on a hill above Ornellaia, planted to Merlot in 1984 almost by accident. It became Italy’s answer to Pétrus, and the only Italian wine traded like a first growth.
What the cellar holds
In the cellar: 1996, 1998 (bottle and magnum), 1999, 2004 (100 points), 2005, 2011 to 2020, magnums of 2018, and the complete vertical of 2007 to 2021 in three-bottle cases.
Vintages in the cellar
- 19961 bottle
- 19981 magnum + 1 bottle
- 19991 bottle
- 20042 bottles
- 20051 bottle
- 20062 bottles
- 20111 original case + 1 bottle
- 20134 bottles
- 20146 bottles
- 20153 bottles
- 20164 bottles
- 20173 bottles
- 201813 bottles + 3 magnums
- 20197 bottles
- 202060 bottles
Every wine of one year, for a birth year or an anniversary: Jahrgangsweine · Millésimes · Annate
Croian & Hein places bottles like this one with a small circle of collectors in Switzerland: discreetly, by appointment, and with the condition of every bottle described plainly before it travels.
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