![]() Black cherry, plum, leather and spice flesh out effortlessly, but what stands out most is the wine's textural intensity and sheer power. The 2016 Opus One is a wine of real breadth and power. 1% Malbec, 8% Petit Verdot completes the blend, 17 days skin contact. ![]() Harvest 9th September to 12th October (starting off slowly then speeding up as the heat rose). ![]() A very classic style, touches of baked vanilla, rosemary and olive. Love the juiciness of this, right off the bat, rich deep black cherry rippling with menthol and eucalyptus notes, and these beautiful floral aromatics that Opus gets in the best years. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is a tightly coiled spring ready to explode, with fantastic tension and wonderfully ripe, very fine-grained tannins, finishing very long with a mineral lift. Needs at least three to five years to come together.ĭeep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Opus One offers up bold, expressive black and blue fruits: warm black plums, black cherries, blackcurrants and wild blueberries with a beautiful undercurrent of lilacs, roses, fertile loam, underbrush and Indian spices. ![]() Full-bodied yet linear and very refined with a very persistent finish. Now it is one of the most sought after American wines in the world!įantastic aromas that are complex and complete with blackcurrants, blueberries and herbs, such as basil and bay leaf. Their aim was to create a single Bordeaux style blend based upon Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The Opus One winery winery was founded as a joint venture between Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Château Mouton Rothschild and Robert Mondavi in the early 1970's. ![]()
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