2019 Ovid Red
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Ovid's 2019 Red Wine—a blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Cabernet Franc and 5% each Merlot and Petit Verdot—boasts classic Napa mountain notes of black cherries and cassis, intermixed with hints of dried sage. It's full-bodied and concentrated yet still fresh and vibrant, without being as brash or bold as the 2019 Hexameter. Complex, refined and even elegant, it finishes long and savory, adding a welcome bass note of mocha. It should drink well for a couple of decades.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Jeb Dunnuck
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Red currants and lead pencil with roses. Medium-bodied and hemmed in, giving really fine and polished tannins that run the length of the wine. Firm and racy. Try after 2027.
Another perfect wine is the 2019 OVID, which is based on 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Cabernet Franc, 5% Merlot, and the rest Petit Verdot. Incredibly perfumed, nuanced, and complex, it has ripe black and blue fruits as well as notes of gravelly earth, tobacco, lead pencil shavings, and truffle. Insanely pure, full-bodied, and perfectly balanced, with fine tannins, this is another heavenly wine from this team and offers everything you could want from wine. Give it 4-5 years and enjoy over the following two decades.
The 2019 Ovid is positively stunning. Deep, translucent and absolutely thrilling in its balance, the 2019 captures all the best qualities of this site. The bottled 2019 is even better than the core blend barrel sample I tasted last year, likely the result of some tweaks at the end of élevage. The 2019 Ovid is without question one of the classiest wines of the year.