The collaboration was conceived in the 1970s and then first realised in 1979, when the first vintage of Opus One was created. It continues to be one of the most expensive Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant wines produced in Napa Valley. It was the first premium California wine sold in Europe. Lively and acidic it is sturdy and lingering as it crescendos at its close.Opus One is one of the world's most famous wines, and is a partnership of two of the most respected figures from Bordeaux and Napa Valley, Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Château Mouton Rothschild and Robert Mondavi. Smooth silk-like tannins wrap themselves seductively around the exuberant flavors of juicy hedgerow-gathered blackberries, dark black cherries and rich cassis.Īn incredible vintage, Opus One 2012 is elegant and refined. The mouthfeel is generous and sumptuously rounded. The bouquet is of fresh summer fruit and whispers of pungent dark forrest floor. Opus One 2012 has been barrel aged for 18 months before bottling. The remaining skins, pulp and seeds are pressed and aged separately this pressed wine used proportionally to provide additional backbone in the final blend. When it is ready the wine runs freely from its raised tank into the French Oak cask awaiting it beneath for aging. Inside each tank the fruits are slowly fermented and macerated, this long process drawing out all of the color and flavors from the fruit. The grade A fruit then fed gently by gravity into the de-stemmer where the fruit is gently washed before they are fed into the raised, temperature-controlled stainless-steel fermentation tanks.Įach tank is dedicated to a single lot of grapes and used only once during each years harvest. At the winery the grapes are painstakingly sorted by hand, any that do not meet stringent standards discarded.
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The Opus One vines of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Merlot and Malbec grape varietals blessed by Mother Nature to produce abundant and bounteous fruit.Ĭarefully monitored, just as they reached their perfect ripeness and were bursting with their most intense and lively flavors and aromas the grapes were hand-harvested, packed lightly and transported with care so as to protect the fruit. Then came plentiful sunshine and a summer of moderate temperatures. The growing season for this 2012 vintage was text-book perfect a warm and relatively dry winter was followed by heavy rains in March providing the vines with the water they needed.
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This dense planting encourages the vines to produce berries that are more compact, with an all-important high skin to juice ratio. It starts at the vineyard where Opus One plant their vines much more densely than is normal in the Napa Valley. Only in this way can they produce this phenomenal, spectacular wine. Traditional and modern viticultural and winemaking practices are combined no shortcuts are ever taken, there is no room for compromise everything must be done precisely and with extraordinary care.
Lovingly created at a vineyard where everything has a singular purpose, to create this extraordinary wine, world acclaimed Opus One wine is produced with great attention to detail.
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