![]() The Partners Room tasting ($200/pp) is seated and guided by your own dedicated Winery Ambassador. Eventually, it was pressure from the local community that persuaded Opus One to open its gates to the public.īut it wasn’t until finally in April of 2021 that the Partners Room was opened, featuring a beautifully appointed tasting room where guests could sample the current vintage of Opus One, alongside two library vintages to showcase just how well the Bordeaux-inspired wines fare with bottle age. That meant that if you wanted to visit Opus One, you had to either know Mondavi or Rothschild themselves to pass through the iron gates. ![]() That same feel seemed to translate to the tasting experience during your visit, where you would visit the quaint tasting bar, receive a pour of the current vintage and be invited to tour the grounds while you sampled the exquisite nectar.īut its important to remember that even this casual tasting experience was a marked improvement in terms of accessibility for Opus One, as despite Robert Mondavi being the first to open a winery in Napa Valley that dedicated 50% of its space to hospitality (with his eponymously named Robert Mondavi Winery), the winery was not open to the public from when it was initially founded in 1991 up until 1995. The wineries original architect, Scott Johnson impeccably married classic French architecture with sleek Californian style (Fun Fact: The aerial view of the winery also impeccably resembles a wine glass!). I’ve been fortunate enough to visit Opus One more than a handful of times over the years and I’ve always found its relaxed and understated elegance an irresistible combination. Once the yeast has finished its work, Opus One spends 17 days macerating with the skins, finally being blended and aged for 18 months in new French oak barrels.Opus One needs no introduction, but when The Partners’ Room opened in April of 2021, it was a welcome addition to the love child of two of wines most revolutionary visionaries, Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe de Rothschild. After this, the Opus One grapes are selected using an optical sorter and fermented separately in stainless steel tanks. ![]() Here, under the signature and supervision of winemaker Michael Silacci, who joined the winery in 2001, manual harvesting is interspersed with more modern, mechanical techniques (providing this will not harm the final result). Oakville, in the Napa Valley. Opus One owns 68 hectares in the western part of the denomination, split into four vineyards planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec and Petit Verdot. Under this premise they make Opus One, a red wine from the A.V.A. This meeting between Philippe de Rothschild and Robert Mondavi was the beginning of the Opus One winery, a project where they create unique, exclusive and highly sought-after wines with one key objective: to achieve unbeatable quality. But they have one thing in common: they are both masters of Cabernet Sauvignon. The other is one of Napa Valley’s most renowned winemakers. ![]() One is the owner of Chateau Mouton Rothschild in Bordeaux. They met while on holiday on the Big Island of Hawaii, at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. ![]()
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