Producer
Robert Mondavi
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The first vintage-dated bottling of Overture, the 2021 wonderfully encapsulates the year. Expressive and delicately perfumed, there are sweet accents of blackcurrant fruit and cocoa nibs, with a rivulet of menthol running through that provides some brevity. On the palate, the wine shows great density of fruit and textural weight, with the new oak-driven spice balanced by superb freshness. Drink 2025-2045.
The first vintage-dated bottling of Overture, the 2021 wonderfully encapsulates the year. Expressive and delicately perfumed, there are sweet accents of blackcurrant fruit and cocoa nibs, with a rivulet of menthol running through that provides some brevity. On the palate, the wine shows great density of fruit and textural weight, with the new oak-driven spice balanced by superb freshness. Drink 2025-2045.
Vivid cherry red, medium intensity, pared back and moreish. Enticing charred plum and spiced black cherry, restrained and savoury, chalky tannins, good lift through the palate without losing the creaminess of the fruit, a dusting of cocoa powder adds a gourmet twist. 100% new oak for ageing. 2021 was a very dry vintage (2nd driest in history of Opus) but there were few extremes of temperature, and this is a delicious Overture. First one with a vintage on the label, after a few years of slowly moving that way. Impressive, easy to recommend.
This small town north of San Francisco has grown up to be one of California’s most famous wine regions. It is home to opulent Cabernets and sweetly-spiced Zinfandels, grown across many sub-regions including Stags Leap, Rutherford, Oakville and others. Cooling ocean fogs roll in from the Pacific at night and burn off in the summer sunshine, keeping the region cooler than you would expect for its latitude, and help produce some of the best Californian wines. Napa wines have the concentration and structure to age magnificently.