#Opus one 2012 skin

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#Opus one 2012 skin

VarietalsĬabernet Sauvignon 79%, Cabernet Franc 7%, Petit Verdot 6%, Merlot 6%, and Malbec 2% Skin Contact This refined and age-worthy wine simultaneously offers a long lingering finish, with lively acidity and a sturdy structure at the close. The wine’s round mouthfeel and satiny tannins wrap around classic flavors of cassis, blackberry and black cherry.

The 2012 Opus One effuses fresh dark fruit aromas accentuated by subtler notes of forest-floor and graphite. Through careful and precise management of the incoming fruit, harvest continued evenly until it was completed on October 20th. Picking started on September 21st at the fresh fruit stage of ripeness to keep flavors bright and lively. At harvest, the fruit exhibited the classic style of our Oakville estate vineyards with incredible depth of flavor, layers of complexity and excellent structure. Mother Nature continued to favor the vintage with a superb growing season characterized by moderate temperatures and bountiful sunshine resulting in one of the valley’s most exceptional vintages. The 2012 has just been bottled, but it is superb.After a warm and dry winter, generous rains returned in March just in time for bud-break and provided the water needed for the rest of the year. Fine, silky tannins support the huge, creamy finish.

Dark red and black fruit, smoke, cedar, new leather and tobacco all meld together as the 2012 shows off its personality. Rich, powerful and seductive, the 2012 Opus One blossoms in the glass with superb textural richness and volume. If one looks further back to the lauded 2007, a wine Robert Parker described as “one of the two strongest wines ever made at Opus One”, you would expect to pay £1400 per case.Īt £875/6 for the 2012, a vintage that Parker calls… “classic, virtually textbook-perfect…a gloriously ostentatious, charming, rich, well-balanced vintage that will drink well young yet, certainly in the best cases, have 20-30 years of longevity ahead of it…” Galloni – 96 points, “Rich powerful and seductive…it is superb”, it would be a surprise if the market resisted its charms. Typically offered at £900 per 6 bottle case, you would expect to pay between £1000 and £1100 per 6 for recent vintages in the secondary market. That it is distributed on allocation via La Place reflects the wine’s ambition to be compared with the great wines of the Medoc and more often than not it succeeds in both quality and price. The last decade has witnessed a succession of superlative wines released from this enticing joint venture, the combination of Napa fruit and first growth know-how proving a heady mix. Always an eagerly anticipated release, Opus One has carved an enviable niche for itself in the minds of collectors and speculators alike.