![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, it slowly grows on the nose, revealing compelling notes of baked black cherries, mulberries, black raspberries, warm cassis and blackberry pie with nuances of spice cake, yeast extract, tapenade, licorice and dusty soil with a waft of wild sage. The 2017 Opus One, bottled in July 2019, is a blend of 81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8.5% Petit Verdot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 4.5% Merlot and 1% Malbec. All of these wines have been listed at the lowest prices in the country, and the full lineup is below:ĩ5 Points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate "Opus One had picked 91% of their fruit before the fires started in 2017, and only two lots were eliminated from consideration. Estate Wine Brokers is thrilled to present the newly released 2017 vintage of Opus One alongside a rare Imperial of the highly lauded 2015 vintage and the latest release of Overture, a multi-vintage cuvée that's perfect for holiday entertaining. From the onset, Opus One was conceived as a Bordeaux-style blend based on premium Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, and since its debut in 1979, it has remained one of the most profound and sought-after wines produced in the United States. In this interview, conducted in New Orleans the night before the 2015 International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) trade show opened, Carlito Fuente considers the impact Fuente Fuente OpusX has had on the cigar industry, and recalls some of the struggles that nearly destroyed his family’s company as they worked to bring OpusX to market.A wine that requires no introduction for many of our readers, Opus One is a joint venture between the late Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Chateau Mouton Rothschild in Bordeaux. Shortly after Fuente Fuente OpusX finally hit the market, a major wine producer filed a trademark lawsuit that might have killed the entire project. Because OpusX uses wrapper leaf grown in the Dominican Republic - a region other tobacco growers felt couldn’t produce good wrapper leaves - many industry observers initially doubted its quality, and even doubted the Fuentes could deliver a finished product. “Fuente Fuente OpusX has changed not only the taste of cigars, it’s changed the vision, the appearance and the way we think about cigars,” says Carlos “Carlito” Fuente Jr., the man who conceived OpusX cigar. They even copied the Fuente look, which has become as much an iconic image for cigars as Juan Valdez is for coffee. ![]() Suddenly, it seemed every cigar company, even huge multinational corporations, attempted to claim for themselves the Fuentes’ focus on tradition and family. Competing manufacturers introduced heavier-bodied cigars to try to compete with OpusX’s rich, robust flavor. The entire premium cigar industry felt the impact of OpusX. It remains one of the world’s most coveted cigars, with each new release eagerly awaited by cigar enthusiasts, reviewers and retailers. Retail shops sold out so quickly that some imposed a “one per customer per day” rule. When it came out in 1995, Fuente Fuente OpusX was an immediate sensation: a cigar so different in its taste, look and origin that cigar enthusiasts literally lined up to buy it. It would be no exaggeration to say that Fuente Fuente OpusX changed the cigar industry as much as the iPhone changed the mobile phone industry. ![]()
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