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Wine Description
The Story
Time is expressed in Opus One by the character of the vintage: sometimes with a personality that is highly defined and sometimes with a shade of difference quite subtle from other vintages. Through the minds and hands of the vineyard workers we capture time and the essence of the season – coaxing concentration and tempering abundance.
Place is often defined as terroir and denotes the special characteristics that geography, geology and clim...
Vintage 2022
A note from Winemaker Michael Silacci
It’s often the most challenging years that inspire us the most.
In 2022, we leaned into two of our Core Values – Purity of Focus and Attention to Detail – as we faced off with Mother Nature in an aikido match.
The season began with cool, dry weather, only to be punctuated by sudden heat spikes. Then, in late August, with warnings of an oncoming heatwave reaching a siren pitch, we gave the vines a ...