2010 Opus One, Napa Valley, California, USA

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2010 Opus One, Napa Valley, California, USAVery much a young wine in its primary stage, this is silky and powerful and tasted excellent during this vertical, despite 2010 being an extremely difficult vintage for winemaker Michael Silacci. The year got off to a cool start, followed by a heatwave the grapes at Opus escaped the shrivelling that much of Napa saw because of leaf cover. There are still plenty of signposts towards a hot summer olive paste, rosemary, garrigue and liquorice notes,

Or it is a spiced fish stew with a saffron rouille

From Gilly-les-Citeaux and below Chambolle

Steep and stark (decomposed) granitic splendour has framed a wine where intervention

it hits the palate with medium-bodied richness

The Clos Cazals Vielles Vignes is a wonderful expression of Oger

very cohesive

in other words with no dosage and no sulfur added

In the cellar

the wine is dark ruby in colour with a nose and palate of dried fruit

Self-assured Arnaud Mortet is rightly proud of his capacious

and it’s appreciably superior to the Lavaux

intense and fresh on the palate