![]() This seems to nicely exemplify the new, fresher Napa Valley school. There is some sweetness but no obvious heaviness. Composed of 81 Cabernet Sauvignon, 4 Petit Verdot, 7 Cabernet Franc, 6 Merlot and 2 Malbec, Opus Ones 2015 Proprietary Red Wine is truly an iron fist. It is extraordinarily broachable already, although is certainly best drink with food thanks to its light charge of neat tannins. This is a fresh, direct wine that developed some spiciness in the glass. The crimson is distinctly transparent and the nose, as well as transmitting freshness, is appetising and cedar. There is little suggestion of anything super ripe or heady. Freshness is the overriding impression - thank you, Pacific Ocean and your nightly visits, presumably. Somehow Silacci and Co have managed to produce a wine that does not taste as though it's the produce of a drought and heatwave and needs the microscope required to read the alcohol level on most Napa Valley wines to discern that it is indeed 15% alcohol. (The 2014 was about €225 a bottle en primeur.) To be offered on the Bordeaux Place on Monday 3 September. There were two periods of cooler weather one during flowering resulted in relatively small clusters and another in very early September just after the start of a protracted harvest that lasted until 8 October. Very warm, dry year, the warmest since 2008, with only a single February storm to fill dams between the end of 2014 and harvest. I think we can assume that Michael Silacci and his team were allowed to spare no expense. 1% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, 6% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, 2% Malbec vinified separately but with an average of 21 days' maceration and 18 months ageing in new French oak. ![]()
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