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Opus One

Tracked vintages
46
Community notes
2,976
Merchant offers
725

What we know about this wine

Critics
97/ 1002024 vintage
Real drinkers
93/ 1002,976 notes, every vintage
Market price
£235per 75 cl2022 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
Drinking window
2032–2054hold2024 vintage

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 2,066 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.

Body4.6 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.8 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.3 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.7 / 5
DrySweet
  • Oak · oak, chocolate, tobacco, vanilla, cedar
  • Black fruit · blackberry, cassis, plum, dark fruit, black fruit
  • Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, graphite
  • Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, cinnamon, anise
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red cherry
  • Floral · violet, perfume, lavender, rose petal, potpourri

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£145–£391Shop asks£171–£806GBP per 75 cl · 30 priced vintages

1983One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside its stated window
  • Holdits window has not opened
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2013
99 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2013
peak, window 2016–2046
Lowest price
2011
£145 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Opus One monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£200£400£600£8002022£2352021£2372020£1712019£2442018£2342017£2122015£2612014£2322013£2752012£2912011£1452010£3242009£2972007£3552006£3212005£3332004£3332003£6522001£4882000£3761999£3161998£3581997£3911996£3381993£6571992£3761990£4401985£2461984£3991983£806

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Opus One monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 10 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Opus One monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2022£23594.6Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2021£23798Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2020£171——per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2019£24497.9Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2018£23497.4Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2017£21295.3Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
2015£26196.1Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2014£23294.5Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2018
2013£27598.9Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2012£29196Yesper 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, February 2022
2011£14592.1Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2015
2010£32496.3Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2009£29793Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
2007£35594.3Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2021
2006£32193Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2018
2005£33394.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2004£33393.3Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2021
2003£65291.4Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2001£48890.9Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
2000£37689.2Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1999£31691.3Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1998£35893Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1997£39190.7Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
1996£33892Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
1993£65791.7Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1992£37690Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1990£44090Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1985£24690.5Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017
1984£399——per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1983£806——per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026

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