Is there any designation on an Overture bottle that tell’s you what year it was released?
There is a Bottle ID, and below that is a faint grey line of numbers. The last two digits (17) is the bottling year. It’s a blend of 3 vintages, and they are normally consecutive.
Thanks Ian!!
One of my bottles has that same bottling designation. The other does not…
How is the wine? Is it good? Worth the price?
Visited Opus 2 or 3 years ago and I was pleasantly surprised how good the NV Overture wine was. I believe it was $75 a bottle.
So $75 for a non-vintage Napa cab?
That was like 3 years ago I believe. Opus website says the current Overture is $125
Multi-vintage Napa Cab.
Read the CT reviews. This is a blend of 3 vintages.
I’ve haven’t had the wine in a few years, but I recall it being very good. Is it worth $125? I’m not sure. However, I don’t think a wine being multi-vintage necessarily makes it bad or subpar.
$ 125 is over the top…
The total lot code would read as such: L300817
So it was bottled 8/30/2017
That makes sense…
Current vintages have a QR code on the back label; flash it and you’re taken to a webpage that gives you the vintage info.
Worth it? Always love that question. . .
In order to provide a more definitive answer, I’ll need to know AGI from your 2020 Form 1040, age, family structure, monthly discretionary income, level of liquid savings, geographic location (so that I can account for cost of living among other things), relative importance of other hobbies, typical expenditure on Cabernet-based wines, SSN (so that I can determine expected SSA benefits), and general preference for new school versus old school versus older school Napa reds. Also, I’ll need to charge $125 to perform the calculation.