1996 Opus One

Community Tasting Notes (211) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  2/25/2024 - ONEFIVE Likes this wine:

  Showing a bit of age with some bricking at the edge.
  Tobacco, dark red fruit, pencil shavings, and a bit of vanilla bean. There is a slight bit of brett but this is a fairly clean bottle.
  Med weight, med acid, med tannin.
  There is some subtlety to this wine that is quite enjoyable however, it feels the fruit needs some coaxing to come out on the palate. Should improve with air, will update if it doesn't. Drink now and over the next 10 years.
  
  Update: opened up nicely. Still a bit bretty but the fruit came around with air. Nice bottle.

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  10/7/2023 - Jhalpern27 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Thanks to my friend Kim who put together a flight of 95,96,97,98,99 Opus and paired with several Waygu prepared by our friend Steve. Oh What a night, spectacular food paired with an amazing Vertical that will most likely not be repeated by our group. This wine performed amazing tonite, but just missed being the WOTN to the 95 by a hair

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  8/6/2023 - toppcats@aol.com Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Revisiting this wine. Cork noted to be soft but intact/ bottle level ok. Cork removed via Durand intact with no evidence of seepage. Musty initial aroma. Wine decanted, minimal sediment noted. Color - dark garnet with no bricking, out to translucent border in glass. Nose - tertiary notes predominant, mainly with tobacco, leather, and forest floor along with dried herbs and dark fruit. Fruit elements seemed more in the background on this particular bottle. Mouthfeel - silky with medium body. Palate mostly echoed the nose with the sense of less fruit element and more of the tertiary notes. Tannins were present, soft, and leading into a drying finish. After about 60 minutes, fruit elements strengthened on nose and palate, nice tertiary complexity continued, and tannins were less drying on the finish. Slight variation from prior bottle - still excellent! - gave same overall score.

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  7/8/2023 - MISTER17.5 Likes this wine: 99 Points

  Fabulous aged Bordeaux nose. Gained complexity over the 4 hours it was open. Very silky mouthfeel. The tannins were soft but still present. I’m not even a fan of Opus and this was amazing. It may have changed my mind

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  4/26/2023 - toppcats@aol.com Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Overall - excellent. Not decanted. Initial nose of black fruit with slight barnyard scent which evolved to a more full fruity nose after open about an hour along notes of forest floor leaf scent and leather. Nice complexity between the fruit and tertiary components from aging. Silky texture on palate with great mouth feel. Well structured with presence of fruit, soft but present tannins, and good acidity. Taste is that of a nicely mature bordeaux but with more fruit presence than in the comparable aged bordeaux I've recently had. Drinking window is still open, and with some time yet to go, with this wine.

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