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2021 OVID Napa Valley Red Wine 750ML
  • 2021 OVID Napa Valley Red Wine 750ML
2021 OVID Napa Valley Red Wine 750ML

2021 OVID Napa Valley Red Wine 750ML

$475.00

The 2021 OVID Napa Valley Red Wine is a single 750ml bottle of OVID's estate red blend, grown on the hillside vineyard on Pritchard Hill in Napa Valley, California. The 2021 vintage is a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant Bordeaux blend, incorporating Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, and Malbec, aged in French oak barrels for approximately 20 months.

The 2021 growing season was marked by cool, even temperatures that preserved natural acidity and allowed for a long, gradual ripening period. The result is a wine of exceptional finesse and concentration, with aromas of blackcurrant, dark cherry, and violet, underpinned by notes of cedar, graphite, and iron-rich minerality drawn from Pritchard Hill's volcanic soils.

The palate is precise and structured, with polished tannins and a long, layered finish. Approachable in its youth but built for cellaring, with a drinking window extending 15–20 years from vintage. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Appellation: Napa Valley, Pritchard Hill
Varietal Composition: Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant Bordeaux blend
Vintage: 2021
Format: 750ml
Alcohol: 14.5% by volume
Contains sulfites
Enjoy With:
Silence in the Age of Noise
by Erling Kagge

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

2021 OVID Napa Valley

The 2021 vintage continued the second year of drought in the western United States, and OVID was no exception. A cool February and March pushed budbreak back to historical normal with buds emerging in late March. Ample sunlight and a temperate summer coaxed the grapes along and provided ideal ripening weather.

As a result of the superb weather, harvest started a bit early with the first pick in mid-September. We slowly made our way through the estate, enjoying our time in the vines and collecting fruit from each block at its zenith of expression. Our last pick wrapped at the end of the first week of October. Loquacious in its approach, the 2021 OVID Napa Valley offers notes of fresh mulberry, kola nut, blackberry, black cherry, flint and bay laurel that are striking in purity. Broad and enveloping, this wine delivers undeniably delicious power and will continue to tell its vivid, seamless story for decades to come.

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Critical Acclaim

Jonathan Cristaldi

A pedigreed wine characterised by balance, intensity, and complexity.

Comprising 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc, 6% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot, the wine is aged 20 months in 66% new French oak. It is full-bodied with ripe, chewy tannins that assert themselves on entry but gradually soften, revealing a beautifully layered wine with mineral-infused mulberry fruit and green tobacco aromas. A pedigreed wine characterised by balance, intensity, and complexity. 100 points.

Jeb Dunnuck

Insanely pure, it offers kaleidoscope-like aromatics.

Insanely pure, it offers kaleidoscope-like aromatics of black and blue fruits, spring flowers, chocolate, burning embers, and bouquet garni. Full-bodied on the palate, it doesn't get any better, and it's concentrated, has building tannins, and a monster of a finish. Offering more generosity and opulence than just about every other wine in the vintage. 100 points.

Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Deep garnet-purple colored, the palate is jaw-droppingly stacked with layer upon layer of black fruits and earthy/savory nuances, supported by very firm, beautifully ripe tannins and bold freshness, finishing long with a spectacular mineral firework display. This is clearly one of Ovid's finest vintages and a keeper, for sure, with 25+ years of cellaring potential. 99 points.

James Suckling

This is so beautiful and graceful yet structured. 

The purity of fruit and class to this wine is really impressive, with roses, lavender, violets and blackcurrants and a sweet lift. Medium- to full-bodied with very long and racy tannins. This is so beautiful and graceful yet structured. 98 points.