Drank as part of a 3-year vertical of Opus for a tasting dinner. All were amazing, but the '85 and '86 were better than the '84. Planned to decant for 2-3 hours based on prior comments, but it was immediately ready upon opening. Actually moved up this flight in the tasting given how ready they were. All elegance and finesse at this point. Fully integrated tannins, but lovely residual, but balanced blue and black fruit paired with just a hint of earthiness and, some said, mint. Simply amazing.
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Pre 1990 Cali Cab + 1981 Birthday Surprise! (Cowford Chophouse): Another bigger style of wine and one that I didn't take very detailed notes on. I haven't had many (any?) old Opus before and so my opinion has mostly been about more recent efforts which I've found a bit underwhelming. This though was when they were building that reputation and so much bolder. It's a bigger style of wine than the other two in the flight. More built to age. I somewhat wonder if this doesn't need another 20 years before it's really in its sweet spot.
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12/22/2022 - Hwmyones Likes this wine: 94 Points
30 min decant. Pleasantly surprised at how good this still is.
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11/16/2022 - TGOT Likes this wine: 98 Points
Drank as part of a 3-year vertical of Opus for a tasting dinner. All were amazing, but the '85 and '86 were better than the '84. Planned to decant for 2-3 hours based on prior comments, but it was immediately ready upon opening. Actually moved up this flight in the tasting given how ready they were. All elegance and finesse at this point. Fully integrated tannins, but lovely residual, but balanced blue and black fruit paired with just a hint of earthiness and, some said, mint. Simply amazing.
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10/8/2022 - VinVegard Likes this wine: 93 Points
Sykt digg! Avslipte tanniner, fantastisk frukt! Lite sekundære aromaer, holder lett 30 år til. Fantastisk vin!
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5/12/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Pre 1990 Cali Cab + 1981 Birthday Surprise! (Cowford Chophouse): Another bigger style of wine and one that I didn't take very detailed notes on. I haven't had many (any?) old Opus before and so my opinion has mostly been about more recent efforts which I've found a bit underwhelming. This though was when they were building that reputation and so much bolder. It's a bigger style of wine than the other two in the flight. More built to age. I somewhat wonder if this doesn't need another 20 years before it's really in its sweet spot.
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7/26/2019 - Tsmith1409 Likes this wine:
Fruity, some backbone. Better than expected.
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