![]() ![]() Save 10 when you mix & match 12+ bottles of wine. Given a choice at this price, this is the style we prefer. Shop Opus One, Napa Valley, California, 2019 red wine through Merchant of. ![]() Harrison said they pick the grapes two to three weeks before most other growers in the neighborhood who want their wines ultra-ripe. Blended of 80 Cabernet Sauvignon, 7 Cabernet Franc, 6 Merlot, 5 Petit Verdot and 2 Malbec, the Opus One Proprietary Red Wine sports an inky purple. The extra bottle age makes the wine rounder in the mouth and ready for consumption with a good piece of beef. More restrained and definitely more refined, the Trivium is well balanced with good acidity, fine tannins and concentrated, layered fruit. The 2008 Trivium ($60) we tasted with Harrison was impressive because of what it is not: a jammy, overblown cabernet sauvignon with raging alcohol. They named the block of vines "Les Ivrettes Vineyard" which is French for "little tipsy ones." An icon of the three girls graces the label. "Dave would drive the tractor back there in the mornings and find wine bottles," Harrison said. The winery was founded as a joint venture between Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Chteau Mouton Rothschild and Robert Mondavi to create a single Bordeaux style blend based upon Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine was called napamedoc until 1982 when it was named Opus One. What they didn't know then but later discovered, as parents are apt to do, the vineyard was where their high school daughters hid out to sip their fathers' wines. Opus One Winery is a winery in Oakville, California, United States. It is one of the oldest vineyards still producing grapes in Napa Valley. With the combined efforts of two enterprising and well-respected individuals in the world of wine, Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Robert Mondavi, (at the time, owners of Chteau Mouton Rothschild in Bordeaux and Robert Mondavi Winery in the Napa Valley), the creation of this winery played a significant role in elevating the stature and reputat. When the fathers decided to form their partnership, they chose as their grape source 14 rows of the historic Lewelling Vineyard west of St. ![]()
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