Opus One Napa Valley

2021

Opus One Napa Valley

Opus One is the realized dream of two men: Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Chateau Mouton Rothschild in Bordeaux and Napa Valley vintner Robert Mondavi. Together, our founders set out to create a single wine dedicated to the pursuit of uncompromising quality. This singular mission shapes every vintage, today and for generations to come.

The “Opus One” is the result of a careful selection of the best Cabernet Sauvignon bunches, which are combined with small percentages of other varieties of Bordeaux origin. It matures in new oak barrels for about 17 months. The result is a red wine of incredible depth and elegance. Long and enveloping, it probably represents the best that California wine has been able to express for decades.

For more info, visit Opus One website.

VARIETALS
78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot, 6% Cab. Franc, 2% Malbec

VINTAGE
2021 –   Download Tasting Note
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Patriarche Bourgogne Chardonnay

2021

Patriarche Bourgogne Chardonnay

The history of Patriarche was written by audacious men and women starting in 1780 in Beaune. The traditional care of the winemaking methods make their wines a bench-marking classic of the regional style with a lot of freshness and great balance.

This Burgundy white wine is a balanced blend of grapes coming from the Côte de Beaune for the structure and from the Mâcon region for their freshness and minerality. The result of the talent of the Cellar Master who has selected Chardonnay grapes harvested at perfect maturity and has aged the wine in 20% new barrels.

For more info, visit Patriarche website.

VARIETALS
100% Chardonnay

VINTAGE
2021

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Pauillac by Pichon-Longueville, Pauillac AOC

2021

Pauillac by Pichon-Longueville, Pauillac AOC

Elaborated since the 2019 vintage, this Pauillac is a fruity, supple and well-balanced wine.
The grapes making up the blend of this cuvée come from young vines in the Tour Pibran and Château Pichon Baron vineyard, with clay-limestone and gravelly soil. These grapes are harvested, vinified and aged by the Château Pichon Baron team. They produce this Pauillac with the same standards of quality as their other wines in order to highlight this appellation.

For more info, visit Château Pichon Baron website.

VARIETALS
80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon

VINTAGE 
2021

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Pazo Cilleiro Albariño Rias Baixas

2021

Pazo Cilleiro Albariño Rias Baixas

Muriel Wines was created as a family business with strong links to its place of origin. Today, it has become a large global company with an important part of its business dedicated to exports. But it remains very connected to its roots: one foot in the vineyard and the other in the rest of the world.

Nature, tradition and the spirit of modernity come together in Pazo Cilleiro Albariño.
The wine that represents the way of understanding the Rías Baixas: a fullness of nuances and flavors in a fresh and lively personality. With the spirit of Atlantic energy.

For more info, visit Muriel Wines  website.

VARIETALS
100% Albariño

VINTAGE
2021

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Petit Figeac Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé AOC (Château Figeac Saint-Émilion GCC 2nd wine)

2021

Petit Figeac Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé AOC (Château Figeac Saint-Émilion GCC 2nd wine)

Château Figeac is one of the leading St. Emilion estates and its wine, with its high Cabernet content, has often been described as the most Médoc-like in Saint-Émilion. It is located in the north-west of the appellation with its vineyards adjoining those of Cheval Blanc. Its 40 hectares of vineyards (unusually for the right bank there is only 30% Merlot in the vineyard with 35% Cabernet Franc and – rare on the right bank – 35% Cabernet Sauvignon) lie on a deep, Médoc-like gravel topsoil (‘Graves’) over a flinty, iron-rich subsoil.
Since 2010 Figeac has been managed by Comte Eric d’Aramon and his wife Laure and there has been some serious improvements here recently under winemaker Frédéric Faye. Michel Rolland has been brought in to consult – but not to change the unique Figeac style. As a consequence, the wines produced now seem a little riper and more polished than before but are still fine, pure and classic.

Produced to the same high standards as the Grand Vin, Petit-Figeac is Château Figeac’s second wine. Under the leadership of Thierry Manoncourt, Château Figeac has been producing a Second Wine since 1945. Since the 2012 vintage, it has taken the name of a historic plot of land, “Petit-Figeac” located in the heart of the estate.

2021 is the first vintage vinified in the estate’s new cellar.

For more info, visit Château Figeac website.

VARIETALS
50% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Cabernet Franc

VINTAGE
2021

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Progetti Agricoli Terre di Mario Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOP

2021

Progetti Agricoli Terre di Mario Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOP

Progetti Agricoli is committed to achieve the best quality of products with a creative design. Each project wine is conceived and realized to change from time to time, region to region, appellation to appellation, and vintage after vintage to “design each wine like a unique project”.

For more info, visit Progetti Agricoli website.

VARIETALS
100% Montepulciano

VINTAGE
2023

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Quid Pro Quo Alentejano Vinho Tinto

2021

Quid Pro Quo Alentejano Vinho Tinto

Casa Santos Lima was created to ensure the continuous development of Santos Lima’s wine producing activity created several generations ago. This activity was first started by Joaquim Santos Lima, who, by the turn of 19th century, was already a great producer and exporter of Portuguese wines. Still a family owned company, today is present in the regions of Lisboa, Algarve, Alentejo, Vinho Verde and Douro.

The basis for the first-class and wonderfully powerful cuvée Quid Pro Quo Vinho Tinto from Casa Santos Lima are Alfrocheiro, Tempranillo and Touriga Nacional grapes.

For more info, visit Casa Santos Lima website.

VARIETALS
Alfrocheiro, Tempranillo, Touriga Nacional

VINTAGE
2021

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Red Blend Portugal Lisboa

2021

Red Blend Portugal Lisboa

Casa Santos Lima was created to ensure the continuous development of Santos Lima’s wine producing activity created several generations ago. This activity was first started by Joaquim Santos Lima, who, by the turn of 19th century, was already a great producer and exporter of Portuguese wines. Still a family owned company, today is present in the regions of Lisboa, Algarve, Alentejo, Vinho Verde and Douro.

The Red Blend Portugal pays homage to the Portuguese producers’ art to take the best of each grape in order to create the perfect blend in a country with a vast variety of native grapes and incomparable skills to combine them the best way possible to produce quality wines.

For more info, visit Casa Santos Lima website.

VARIETALS
Several Portuguese native grape varieties

VINTAGE
2021

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Reschke Bull Trader Shiraz

2021

Reschke Bull Trader Shiraz

The Reschke family first settled in the Limestone Coast district in 1906, establishing themselves as prime Hereford graziers. In 1989 Burke Reschke, fourth generation in the family decided to develop the farmland into vineyards, which in turn produced exceptional fruit, as well as a number of Australia’s icon wines.

2021 provided an exceptionally strong vintage, with great fruit expression and tannins across the reds, giving rise to wines with excellent cellaring potential.

For more info, visit Reschke website.

VARIETALS
100% Shiraz

VINTAGE
2021

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Rocca delle Macìe Chianti Riserva DOCG

2021

Rocca delle Macìe Chianti Riserva DOCG

Rocca delle Macìe was established in 1973, when Italo Zingarelli, a film-maker, producer and director, decided to realize his lifelong dream by acquiring the “Le Macìe” estate, in order to create a winery in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone and to produce wines that, thanks to their balance between the tannic structure, fruit and pleasantness, can be appreciated by young people and wines that are able to give over the years a great evolution.
Good and affordable, this Chianti maintains its quality year after year. Fruity and floral with a touch of spice, it also displays a pleasant suppleness that makes it a versatile wine that will pair wonderfully with a wide variety of dishes.

For more info, visit Rocca delle Macìe website.

VARIETALS
90% Sangiovese, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot

VINTAGE
2021

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Rocca delle Macìe Tenuta Fizzano Il Crocino Chianti Classico Gran Selezione DOCG

2021

Rocca delle Macìe Tenuta Fizzano Il Crocino Chianti Classico Gran Selezione DOCG

Rocca delle Macìe was established in 1973, when Italo Zingarelli, a film-maker, producer and director, decided to realize his lifelong dream by acquiring the “Le Macìe” estate, in order to create a winery in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone and to produce wines that, thanks to their balance between the tannic structure, fruit and pleasantness, can be appreciated by young people and wines that are able to give over the years a great evolution.

Historic cru of the company, it is the expression of grapes from the ‘il Crocino’ vineyard composed of four parcels, located in the highest part of the hill. The entire vineyard extends over 36 hectares on land rich in sand and gravel.

For more info, visit Rocca delle Macìe website.

VARIETALS
Sangiovese (min. 90%) and Colorino (the percentage varies each year)

VINTAGE
2021

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Ruggeri Giustino B. Valdobbiadene Superiore DOCG Prosecco Extra Dry

2021

Ruggeri Giustino B. Valdobbiadene Superiore DOCG Prosecco Extra Dry

Dedicated to Giustino Bisol, who founded the winery in 1950, this sparkling wine is the fruit of extensive trials and experiments with particular selections and techniques, from the vines to the bottle. The Giustino B. therefore embodies the living expression of the experience and determination in the search for the very best and of the passionate dedication to the grape itself (traditionally called Prosecco).
Giustino B. is receiving constantly the Tre Bicchieri del Gambero Rosso at every vintage, making the Ruggeri winery the only one in the world of Prosecco to be awarded the prestigious star award from Gambero Rosso.

Certified sustainable.

For more info, visit Ruggeri website.

VARIETALS
100% Glera

VINTAGE
2021

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Schild Estate Alma Schild Barossa Chardonnay

2021

Schild Estate Alma Schild Barossa Chardonnay

Schild Estate Wines are created with an authenticity and passion that comes from generations of a family who have made their home in the Southern Barossa.

This wine is dedicated to “Alma Schild”, who raised a family of eight children in primitive conditions whilst supporting her husband Ben in establishing the Schild family vineyards and is a testament to her understanding, perseverance and sheer hard work. Sourced from the family’s finest parcel of Chardonnay off the Moorooroo Vineyard near Rowland Flat, the goal for our winemakers here has been to produce a wine which is varietally strong, retains its element of refreshingness, but possesses interest and complexity for the drinker. Varying degrees of oak barrel and stainless steel use, lees stirring and malolactic fermentation are all used in an effort to make a wine “with no arms and legs sticking out” and in which “Alma Schild” would be proud.

For more info, visit Schild Estate website.

VARIETALS
100% Chardonnay

VINTAGE
2021

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Schild Estate Barossa Grenache Shiraz Mataro

2021

Schild Estate Barossa Grenache Shiraz Mataro

Schild Estate Wines are created with an authenticity and passion that comes from generations of a family who have made their home in the Southern Barossa. Three generations after the first family vineyard was established back in 1952, Schild hands still tend to the vines, working together to produce premium wines.

Dark cherry, plum and red currant fruit sits alongside more savoury spice notes. Soft around the edges and deliciously drinkable. Controlled and smooth.

For more info, visit Schild Estate website.

VARIETALS
40% Grenache, 30% Shiraz, 30% Mataro

VINTAGE
2021

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Schild Estate Barossa Merlot

2021

Schild Estate Barossa Merlot

Schild Estate Wines are created with an authenticity and passion that comes from generations of a family who have made their home in the Southern Barossa.
The Three Springs vineyard is where the original Schild family estate is located.
Situated on historic Narrow Road at Rowland Flat, this vineyard sits at 380 metres above sea level. Vineyards at this altitude are traditionally much lower yielding than vineyards planted on the Barossa Valley floor meaning the grapes from these vines are regarded as higher quality fruit, as this merlot clearly shows.

For more info, visit Schild Estate website.

VARIETALS
100% Merlot

VINTAGE
2021

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