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2013 OVID Napa Valley Red Wine 375ml
  • 2013 OVID Napa Valley Red Wine 375ml
2013 OVID Napa Valley Red Wine 375ml

2013 OVID Napa Valley Red Wine 375ml

$495.00

OVID Napa Valley

OVID Napa Valley is our flagship wine and also our compass. In the way it embodies the tensions and intricacies of both our vineyard and philosophy, the wine guides us as much as we guide it.

Always a blend that changes subtly from year to year, OVID Napa Valley is based on Cabernet Sauvignon, which established the voice of our property while connecting it with the greater continuity of Napa Valley. Cabernet Franc, an independent and contrasting voice, provides a perfect counterpoint. Small portions of Merlot and Petit Verdot smooth edges and strengthen foundations. They coalesce to become a profound, congruous wine, whose beauties and pleasures – not unlike an epic story – lie in its depth, vitality, timelessness and complexity.

Tasting Notes

2013 OVID Napa Valley

The 2013 vintage was an epic year in Napa Valley - a year of remarkable alignment. The second year of drought started with an early and dry budbreak and set followed by a warm, long and seamless growing season. Harvest was impeccable too, stretching the length of September, allowing us a leisurely picking window and yielding expressive and utterly ripe fruit from each grape varietal in our vineyard.

The 2013 OVID Napa Valley is a wine of great intensity and profound flavors, a result of the long growing season. Sweet firm tannins are interleaved with blackberry and dark cherry fruits, espresso, spice and licorice to make a wine that is both uncommonly delectable and undeniably eloquent.

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Critical Acclaim

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The wine hits the palate with a cascade of gorgeous fruit, sweet tannin, great delineation and acidity.

The 2013 Proprietary Red has an opaque purple color and a beautiful nose of blackberry, blueberry and cassis as well as hints of espresso, white flowers, and subtle background toast. The wine hits the palate with a cascade of gorgeous fruit, sweet tannin, great delineation and acidity, and a long, velvety, voluptuously textured mouthfeel. This big, inky, thick, juicy wine should age beautifully for 25-30 years.

Antonio Galloni

This tasting reinforces my view that the 2013 is the most complete OVID yet. Dark, powerful and vertical in its sense of structure, the 2013 possesses terrific intensity, with a backbone of firm tannin that will allow the wine to age gracefully for many years. I wouldn't dream of touching a bottle before age ten. Vivid and exceptionally balanced, the 2013 OVID captures all the pedigree that is such a signature of this great Napa Valley vintage.

Decanter

A fresh and primary nose of crushed blackcurrant reveals lovely incipient complexity in the form of subtle tar and warm chaparral, introducing a fresh, bright and refined wine structured around layers of finely detailed tannins. This sophisticated bottling from the thoughtful Austin Peterson.