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Opus One Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 1996
This is one of the finest Opus Ones to date, offering a dark ruby/purple color, as well as a striking, intense bouquet of sweet licorice intermixed with blackberries, cassis, plums, and saddle leather. This seamless, full-bodied wine is more velvety-textured, opulent, and succulent than past vintages. The mid-palate is expansive and chewy. The long finish is filled with glycerin, ripe fruit, and sweet tannin. Drink this impressive, user-friendly yet richly concentrated effort over the next 15 years. Robert Parker
Ratings on Delectable
Bill Bender 
En Mag. Losing some fruit intensity but still a very refined, well made wine with a low acid, toasty oak and a red creamy fruit profile. At full maturity. Drink now.
En Mag. Losing some fruit intensity but still a very refined, well made wine with a low acid, toasty oak and a red creamy fruit profile. At full maturity. Drink now.
9.3
Carl Fischer
En magnum.
En magnum.
9.3
Gordon Walker
Quite green and very very bretty. Still has nice tannins and good integration
Quite green and very very bretty. Still has nice tannins and good integration
8.6
Morgan Harris
Head Sommelier Aureole New York
Shockingly good. One of the best mid-90s Cali Cabernets. Tell-tale green herbal pyrazine notes are here next to concentrated exotic red and black fruits. There's a remarkable amount of freshness to the wine though. I totally believe the 13.5% alcohol on the label. The oak is judicious an simply supports the fruit purity, although savory brett notes add and unexpected wild bass line. Easily a decade plus ahead, but drinking well now. The last of a certain breed of cabernet, with the soupy-syrupy '97s waiting just around the corner.
Shockingly good. One of the best mid-90s Cali Cabernets. Tell-tale green herbal pyrazine notes are here next to concentrated exotic red and black fruits. There's a remarkable amount of freshness to the wine though. I totally believe the 13.5% alcohol on the label. The oak is judicious an simply supports the fruit purity, although savory brett notes add and unexpected wild bass line. Easily a decade plus ahead, but drinking well now. The last of a certain breed of cabernet, with the soupy-syrupy '97s waiting just around the corner.
9.5
Robert Cunningham
Wine Educator DeVinimus, Wine Workshop
Beautiful balanced wine
Beautiful balanced wine
9.6Stefan Metzner
What a ripe beautifully developed wine // ripe round tannins// full body//still fruit aromas left but more so the great complex tertiary flavours and great texture plus long finish
What a ripe beautifully developed wine // ripe round tannins// full body//still fruit aromas left but more so the great complex tertiary flavours and great texture plus long finish
9.5Cameron Russell
Sommelier/Educator BW Wine Group
At it's peak, delicious and ready to drink!
At it's peak, delicious and ready to drink!
8.8
Melissa Treadway
Should have opened a couple of years ago...
Should have opened a couple of years ago...
8.8
Yoon Ha
Master Sommelier/Wine Director Benu
Not tired at all but too bretty.
Not tired at all but too bretty.
8.1
Sean Wormuth
Still great. Has at least 5-10 years to go, probably more.
Still great. Has at least 5-10 years to go, probably more.
9.6
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