Readers can generally expect elegant, refreshing, medium-bodied wines-like this 2017 Opus One-with pretty perfumes, red fruit signatures and subtle dried herbs in the background. After all is said and done, I only judge what's in the glass, and what I've tasted so far (admittedly from some of the very best wineries in the Valley) is not too shabby at all. It was a year that started with a deluge, got blasted with heat during Labor Day weekend and then suffered the most devastating wildfires this area has seen just at the tail end of harvest.
Opus one wine 2016 full#
We were able to pick fairly regularly with an even flow in the cellar." The more 2016s I taste, the harder it is to fault this decadent, rich, blue and black-fruited vintage.Ģ017 was, of course, another vintage story altogether and one that I will cover comprehensively in my full Napa report at the end of October.
"We had plenty of rain in the early part of the year," commented Opus One winemaker Michael Silacci, "followed by an early budbreak. The last of the "drought" years and a rather warm one at that, the resolute nature of these impeccably tended Oakville vines is apparent in the complex layers, beautiful freshness and rock-solid frame of this wine.Ģ016 is the vintage winemakers can't remember because it was so uneventful. Already previously reviewed as a barrel sample, the 2015 was a show-stopper from barrel and is equally impressive in bottle. Opus One knocks it out of the park with three excellent, if very different, takes on the the last string of vintages: 2015, 20.
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