TN: 2004 Opus One

Decanted. With family without an ah-so and cork disintegrated. Tasted after an hour. Bright and rich cassis, light notes of green bell pepper emerged later on and a bit of tobacco. This was big but not overly hot and had a beautiful complexity and pure, still youthful fruit. Was surprised at how young this felt. A long, 40-sec finish. Tannins soft and supple but still present. 92.

Cork fell apart on a wine that’s only 2004? Wow. What kind of crappy corks were they using? Ten years is still a really young wine.

could have been storage, i’ve had some really good corks.

Not sure what type of cork except to say “crumbled.” :slight_smile: storage quite possibly an issue but they drank youthfully. Out of stepdad’s cellar, which I believe is a styrofoam carton in his closet.

i’ve opened 15 year old Opus and had no issues, YRMV