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Country ranking ?
363
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Producer ranking ?
26
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Decanting time
5h
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When to drink
from 2018
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Food Pairing
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Food Pairing
Beef Tenderloin with Shitake and Crisp Rosemary Potatoes
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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...
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The 2011 vintage started with unseasonably late rainfall in June which disrupted fruit set. This variable rain and low temperatures reduced the number and size of berries on each cluster yet increased concentration of the fruit. Harvest began on September 22nd and ended on October 25th.
Fresh aromas of bright red fruits, bay leaf and cassis give way to subtler notes of black tea and white pepper. Round tannins and creamy texture envelop the...
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Latest Pro-tasting notes
17 tasting notes
Tasting note
color
Deep, Ruby red and Dark
ending
Medium and Pure
flavors
Blackcurrant, Chocolate and Spice
nose
Open
taste
Average in Acidity, High tannin, Balanced, Full-bodied, Fruity, Round, Elegant and Drying tannins
Verdict
Well-rounded and Full-bodied
Written Notes
71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot, 9% Petit Verdot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 1% Malbec. 17 days’ skin contact. 18 months in new French oak. Very wet winter and spring through to flowering in June. Disrupted fruit set. 45% harvested early and avoided an October storm, the rest of the harvest delayed by a week because of the storm.
Looks quite evolved at the rim. Dark garnet. Not the same intensity as the others. Lively and fresh but quite different! Really rather bordelais transparency. Sinewy. Fresh but unlikely to be very long-lived. Very different from the rest of the line-up.
Dark, ruby red colour. Pronounced, fresh and herbaceous nose with some ripe black currants, flowers, violets, roasted coffee and spicy touch of new oak. Medium-bodied, vivid, mouth-drying refined tannins. Some herbs and ripe blackberries. The aftertaste is supple. Nice and enjoyable wine. Serve with Parmesan-crusted sauteed pork chops. Very elegant wine for a Napa Valley Cab.
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Origin
Oakville, Napa Valley
Vintage Quality
Excellent
Value For Money
Good
Investment potential
No Potential
Fake factory
None
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