There’s just something about the label on a bottle of Opus One that has always pulled me in. Most collectors and consumers won’t admit it, but a lot of the reason they pick out a bottle of wine in a store of hundreds, if not thousands of options is because they’re attracted to the imagery on the bottle.
When I first saw that simplistic white paper with the gold lettering and royal blue “connected heads” logo, I just needed to know what this wine was about.
The first Opus One I tried was a 2012. Up until this point I thought spending more than forty bucks on a bottle of wine was ridiculous, but at the time $250 was whatever just to try what was in this bottle. I had the wine with wagyu filet mignon, and the combination was unlike anything I had ever tried before. There is an elegance to Opus One that rivals Napa Valley’s reputation. Napa is known to produce jammier, juicier, oakier reds. This had just the right balance of fruit, oak, and smoothness to it.
In the next few years to come I’ve tried the 1985, 2011, 2006, 2014, and 2013 – all excellent and thought-provoking in their own ways. So, is Opus One worth the price?
The Chosen Vine 