![]() Drink with food now! May need to take on a little bit of puppy fat for perfection. Not a trace of smoke taint! Very mid Atlantic and really pretty sophisticated. Much livelier than the Overture just tasted, with tannin in evidence and a dry finish. A combination of savoury and something as sweet and chalky as Edinburgh rock. Interesting top note of tobacco with some candied fruit. ![]() Lustrous shaded garnet with some shading towards the rim. ![]() (Two lots eventually were rejected.) 54% native yeast, of which the one they call Dog was the dominant one. Picked from 5 September (a little 'earlier than expected') and 91% was harvested by 8 October when the fires started. Big heat spike early September shut down ripening for a while so the alcohol level is 'only' 14%. Wet spring delayed flowering by two weeks and then came a very warm summer. 20-day maceration and then aged for 17 months in 100% new French oak. Enjoyable now, the wine will delight for years to come.80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Petit Verdot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Merlot, 1% Malbec. Fine-grained tannins offer a velvery texture and complex structure that builds to a long, vibrantly fresh finish with a touch of mocha. After a silky entry, dark fruit flavors emerge with hints of baking spice and black olive. The Cat shows up at the house of Sally and her brother one rainy day when their mother is away. Seuss.The story centers on a tall anthropomorphic cat who wears a red and white-striped top hat and a red bow tie. The 2014 Opus One exudes subtle aromes of fragrant florals, fresh garden herbs and forest floor that give way to a concentrated blend of red cherry, blackberry, and black currant. The Cat in the Hat is a 1957 childrens book written and illustrated by American author Theodor Geisel, using the pen name Dr. Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Malbec. The tannins are firm and gripping, standing out a bit from the core texture. Mesmerizing aromas of flowers, bark, currants and blackberries. Rich and creamy, intense and layered, featuring a mix of blackberry, licorice, mocha, cedar and tobacco flavors, with a touch of gravelly earth. It's quite a serious, savory Opus which will need a few years in the cellar to unwind. On the palate the wine is youthfully taut, with a good line of acidity and fine but assertive tannins. (Antonio Galloni)Ī cool bouquet of fruit compote and wild plum mingles with notes of clove, incense and lilac. In short, the 2014 is a wine of tension, power and grace. The 2014 is not an obvious Opus One, like the 2010, 2012 or 2013, but over time, I will not be surprised if it challenges or even surpasses some of those vintages. A sleeper wine for the year, the 2014 is shaping up to be a gorgeous wine that will handsomely repay several decades of cellaring. The tannins are firm but also impeccably balanced. He pointed out that the relative rise in alcohol levels in Opus One was moderate in the context of other Cabernet-based wines from California (12.9 in 1979 compared to 14. Savory, tightly wound and intensely aromatic, the 2014 is going to need time to unwind, but it looks like it will develop along the more classic vintages here. Silacci, whose first vintage at the winery was 2001, said that he aimed to ‘enhance tradition and maintain innovation’. The 2014 Opus One has turned out to be a gorgeous wine. Exquisite tension and finesse with an almost Burgundian texture, yet it's Napa in its soul with ripe fruit, stones, spices and Chinese tea leaf flavors. Mesmerizing aromas of flowers, bark, currants and blackberries.
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