Given its popularity and brand recognition, it's nice to know that even at a major steak house you can probably find this wine and be thrilled to buy it and drink it. It is full-bodied, opulent and, dare I say, delicious. It is reaching full maturity at ten years, but I think there is still another 10-15+ years of upside potential in this wine. Of course, it is a popular wine to criticize, but the quality has never been better, and certainly 2005 is a beauty. 2019 Bottle (750ml) Opus One Opus One 2019 750ml America California Cabernet Sauvignon Red Wine, America California Napa Valley. Arguably the finest United States wines have always come out of California, where the climate and terrroir. Complex and medium to full-bodied, with silky tannin and superb purity and balance, this is exactly what Opus One was meant to be when it was first proposed. Buy 750ml 2018 Opus One Red Wine from Napa Valley, California, and browse Saratoga Wine Exchanges entire selection of Red Blend today. Opus One Red Wine, United States, California, Napa Valley. And after so many years, it represents the pinnacle of French viticultural knowledge combined with that of California and Napa's Shangri La-like microclimate. Over the last ten or more years, the administration at Mouton Rothschild, particularly the team led by Philippe Dhalluin, has truly pushed the level of quality to the point where this is clearly one of the great wines of Napa. In addition the vintages misses a bit of charm and. Almost all of the wines are past peak with not enough fruit left. The opaque purple-hued 2005 exhibits an extraordinary nose of violets, creme de cassis, charcoal, and spring flowers. More nuanced young black fruit them the jammy fruit forward 'boutique' Cabs from Napa. Great nose with prominent Cedar and graphite shavings. 1990 was not an overly exciting vintage in Napa Valley, clearly overshadowed by the 91/92/94 vintages. Perfect balance, great structure, evolved over 2 hours to subtle, smooth and complex. Robert Parker: This famous wine, first created by the late Baron Philippe de Rothschild and the late Robert Mondavi, started off life as a very good, but rarely exceptional wine. 48x 1990 (37x Bdx, 6x Napa, 5x others): Six Napa wines were added to this Bdx tasting. It’s another beautifully perfumed wine that’s firing on all cylinders today and offers mature dark fruits, sappy tobacco, chocolate, and abundant. 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc, 1% Malbec From a cooler vintage, the 2005 Opus One is 88 Cabernet Sauvignon, 5 Merlot, 3 each of Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, with the final 1 Malbec brought up, I believe, in mostly new French oak.
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