Initial dark fruit, spice and baking aromas in the 2015 Opus One are interwoven with seductive notes of violet, black tea, and sage. In 1989 a new winery was built just down the road, the first vintage from the new winery was from 1991 and was released in 1994. The first vintage, 1979 was released in 1984 at the same time as the 1980 vintage. The creation of this winery venture in 1980 was big news in the wine industry de Rothschild's involvement added an air of respectability to the burgeoning Napa wine region. The winery was founded as a joint venture between Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Château Mouton Rothschild and Robert Mondavi to create a single Bordeaux style blend based upon Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine was called Napa-Medoc until 1982 when it was named Opus One. Opus One Winery is a winery in Oakville, California, United States. A grilled steak, or veal with a rich demi-glace would also be an amazing combination. This New World example is fruit-forward in style, masculine and can definitely make you a lot of friends! This wine can work with a wide variety of meat-based dishes, with lamb and game being at the front of the line. The Syrah shows restraint with its dark fruit flavors and savory, spicy and earthy notes. The Grenache shines through with an abundance of ripe red fruit, plush texture and silky mouthfeel. With Mourvèdre being at the forefront, the floral characters, earthy components and structure are beautiful with gripping tannin. The “jigsaw puzzle” is a perfect profile and homage to a Rhône blend. Certainly, a pleasantly complex puzzle of flavors and textures, with incredible focus on the palate.īlend: 40% Mourvèdre, 32% Grenache, 28% Syrah
The flavors are mouthwateringly appealing, with fine tannins and vibrant natural acidity, bringing notes of Bing cherries, finocchiona salumi, dark plums and toasted Hungarian paprika. Darkly colored and highly aromatic, notes of olallieberry pie, rose petals, nutmeg and marjoram emanate from the glass. After a long, controlled maceration, the wine was blended with Syrah and aged in a combination of neutral French oak and 600-liter concrete eggs for 20 months. Whole cluster, rich, muscular Grenache, with notes of cocoa, leather, and black tea, was co-fermented with fresh, vibrant Mourvèdre in concrete fermenters. With each successive vintage, the wine has gained density and complexity, as the vines come into their own, and Ann Kraemer’s vineyard team garners perspective and foresight. Rompecabezas Red Wine Spanish for “jig-saw puzzle”, Rompecabezas is inspired by the wines of the Southern Rhone, but of course is decidedly Californian in nature. Favia is the ever-resonant telling of a story still being written.” – Andy and Annie With reverence, we usher our bounty toward a new expression we seek to bottle a glimpse of a time and place.
At its center, our work is a partnership with Nature. And finally, our work rests in barrel, quietly finding its voice over years. Our stone cellar echoes with memory of vintages a century past. Our vines enunciate the intricacies of the four seasons. We encounter millennia in the volcanic upheaval of our surrounds. Time, too, is our partner, immense and inexorable. Favia is a celebration of a place and its people. In these vineyards, curiosity and humility assemble to listen closely to the history of ancient soils, the natural currents of the everyday, and the myriad voices of those who foster the patient growth and harvest of our grapes. Our collaboration then wends outward and into the neighboring hills, visiting familiar vines and their tending hands. And there is our home - a house and cellar, gardens and fruit trees: a collaboration that has meandered across generations, its stone first laid by Napa Valley’s earliest Italian immigrants. Favia Erickson Winegrowers is first a collaboration between husband and wife duo winemaker Andy Erickson and viticulturalist Annie Favia.
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