Prestigious Sommeliers International September 2013 issue Review:
O’Vineyards Proprietor’s Reserve 2007:
“Serve it at 16°C.
Ageing:2020.
color: Black hue, purple
Nose: rich, very aromatic, dense, spices, blacberry, violet, peony, garigue, white pepper, cinnamon
Palate: pure straight at first taste. Very good amplenes, Spices, freshness and density in the finish
Match with food: grilled wild boar, Prime rib, marrow bone
“This was our Christmas dinner wine thanks to Ryan O’Connell and Joe for making such a gorgeous wine!”
—Frankie Jacklin via Facebook
It’s the holiday season and we’re happy to see lots of people are opening O’Vineyards wine with their friends and family. It’s always heart warming to know that we could play a small part in celebrating the best moments of your lives!
photo: Siegel
Chocolate and O’Vineyards Tasting
O’Podium on Christmas Eve
Feel free to share more photos and comments on our facebook page or by tweeting @mroconnell.
It’s hard to link directly to specific reviews on Naked Wines, but our UK customers have been enjoying the wines for the holidays too!
And a whole bunch of people will be opening the Proprietor’s Reserve 2006 on New Years Eve at La Barbacane, a michelin star rated restaurant in the medieval castle of Carcassonne. The wine has been selected for a pairing with “poularde de Bresse en deux cuissons, le suprême poché aux truffes et langoustines, la cuisse confite, purée de cerfeuil tubéreux purée de cerfeuil tubéreux et salsifis au jus, une sauce, un jus”. Should be a delicious main course on a mouth watering 275€ St Sylvestre menu.
O’Vineyards Proprietor’s Reserve 2006 was delivered in the UK recently and the reviews are pouring in as quickly as the wine is being poured into glasses!
Try a bottle
Everybody orders in increments of six bottles. Even though this is a wine they know can sit for a long time in their cellar, it’s only human to want to taste one straight away and evaluate for themselves how it will age and when would be the best time to open the other five!
So right away, we have a lot of people trying a bottle.
How to cellar a wine
Once you discover the wine is good, it’s very hard to resist the temptation of drinking them all young on the fruit flavors! One customer suggested her perfect solution: buy 2 cases ;D
Posted by Julie Boulton on 16:17 25/08/2011
Comment on: Domaine O’Vineyards Proprietors Reserve 2006
The characteristics of this wine make it go well with a wide range of foods. We tried it with tapas and each dish brought out different undertones. A real medley of tastes! I’d highly recommend trying it this way, but do include some spicy meats, chicken and cheese dishes. Wonderful and very smooth.
Agree it’s too powerful to drink on its own.
A very special wine to be savoured with every mouthful…
I’ve put 6 bottles aside, so there are 5 on my rack to indulge in whenever the urge takes us… now you’re thinking I’ve been a bit greedy buying 2 cases, but I’m very glad I did (at Market Place prices)! Well done Ryan and Joe… a votre sante!
Dealing with Negative Feedback
I should confess that one person has given us a negative review on the wine. It’s really great how Naked Wines puts me in direct contact with my wine drinkers, and this comment is a perfect example. The man says he’s disappointed and “Delivery was left in porch foe some days” [sic] A-ha! I think that’s a good guess, and I recommend the best way to get his money back. Crisis averted.
In the wine world, there is such a long chain of custody between vineyard and your cellar, there are a million things that can go wrong. If he hadn’t offered this information, I’d be left scratching my head wondering how anybody could describe this wine as lacking oomph. If anything, the major criticism of the O’Vineyards Reserve is too much oomph! ;D So here, the comment system allows me to discover what went wrong and offer the best course to rectify the problem. All businesses should be so lucky!
O’Vineyards Proprietor’s Reserve 2006 finally made its way to households across the UK. One of my favorite things about Naked Wines is the rabid devotion and excitedness of the customers over there. We get instant updates about the wine being delivered and it seems to never take more than a day for somebody to pop open a bottle and let us know how well it traveled.
🙂
Naked Wines customers are Fast
Posted by Darren Lewis on 17:51 18/08/2011
Woo hoooooo…… the O’Vineyards Proprietors Reserve 2006 Marketplace offering arrived today.
Now I just need to make up a special occasion so that I can drink it.
Is Thursday a special enough occasion?
Darren confirmed the wine has been delivered at their home at 17:51 on the 18th. I wonder how long it will be before somebody opens a bottle. Less than 3 hours later Trevor is already reviewing the wine online:
Naked Wines customers are devoted
And the reviews keep coming in! We’ll keep hearing from them about how the wine is evolving and meeting their needs. Do their friends like it? Do their kids like it? How does it compare to other wines from O’Vineyards or other vintages of Reserve. We get all this feedback for free and it helps us make better wines to better please our best customers.
Naked Wines customers are the best customers in the world.
PS – It took Darren a few days to open that bottle, but he immediately let us know how it went!
Posted by Darren Lewis on 13:31 21/08/2011
Comment on: Domaine O’Vineyards Proprietors Reserve 2006
Not for the feint of heart.
It’s a deeply heady blend, packed with ripe fruits and carrying an undertone of floral perfume.
This intensity, coupled with a slightly dry finish might make it just too full-on for some to drink on it’s own. But, all of these characteristics make it a perfect match for a nicely rare steak.
Top drawer again O’Connells…… and I have 5 more bottles to indulge in.
Customer review of Domaine O’Vineyards Proprietor’s Reserve 2005:
Posted by Nik Denley on 19:03 29/05/2011
Comment on: Domaine O’Vineyards Proprietor’s Reserve 2005
I was asked the question, would I buy this again. YES! YES I would – utterly delicious. Definitely, needs a good breath before hand. My husband was so enthused with it that I took that moment to tell him that I’d bought a share in the vineyard ….
Okay, we’re getting a lot of great reviews and it’s hard picking which one to throw on the site. This one isn’t really a tasting note, but it tells a story and made me laugh aloud.
For background information, we’re offering a share of a parcel of O’Vineyards through Naked Wines. 100 customers will team together to rent a vineyard parcel in the south of France and have it fermented and bottled with their own label. Nik has bought one of those shares. So she found the perfect way to break the news to her hubby. “So do you like the wine? Good! Because you maaaybeee… might have bought the vineyard that makes it… just a little… wow, glad that’s out of the way. How was your day?”
Customer review of Domaine O’Vineyards Proprietor’s Reserve 2005:
Posted by William Sharkey on 17:29 13/05/2011
Comment on: Domaine O’Vineyards Proprietor’s Reserve
Thank you very much Ryan and Joe! I’m sure I will be having lots of special occasions… I proposed to my girlfriend earlier on in the week so I’m sure we’ll be buying lots more of your wine to celebrate! Looking forward to trying your whole range!
Our review of the week from a customer at Naked Wines. Oh congratulations Will! There might be a new marketing campaign in here. O’Vineyards, the wine that makes her say yes! ;D It’s a real pleasure to hear that our wine will play such an important role in your life. Thanks for sharing!
We are very proud to discover that Tamlyn Currin, a writer at JancisRobinson.com, has included us in a review of some of the top winemaking “Estranhièrs” in the Languedoc-Roussillon.
We’re in very good company and this is the kind of content that makes you want to subscribe to Jancis’ purple pages. It’s a great compilation of winemakers for people who are eager to discover the amazing diversity of the Languedoc Roussillon.
Tamlyn has also written some of my favorite reviews for my wines to date. The Mojo has “sassy red berry fruit” (Awesome. I’ll be using that a lot.) The Syrah has “Damson by the bucket load” (That’s a type of plum. One that we actually grow on the vineyard.)
And the Proprietor’s Reserve review goes back and forth between long, narrative sentences and sharp, captivating notes. The review matches the wine. I’m very proud of my parents and me. 🙂
O’Vineyards, Proprietor’s Reserve 2006 Cabardès 16.5+ Drink 2010-2015
Six barrels of Cabernet Sauvignon, 10 barrels of Syrah and 12 barrels of Merlot. Fermented and aged in new French oak for 18-20 months.
A perfume that made me close my eyes, just to breathe it in. Sweet damson, spiced dried fruit, figs and wet tea leaves. Rich and chocolatey, with plenty of dark plum tang and cinnamon. This tastes much more American than Languedoc – something that is more or less what I have noticed in all their wines. Very long. Velvety. Hedonistic. (TC) 13.5%
Toward the end, I wonder if I’m really making American-styled wines and whether or not making new world wines is mutually exclusive with being true to the Languedoc terroir. But I don’t want to dwell on that right now. I want to dwell on velvety hedonism. I really love these reviews and I’m so happy to be featured on Jancis’ site. She wrote a lot of the reference material that got my dad and me into wine in the first place. And Tamlyn is a charm.
The rest of our reviews have been incorporated into the website for each wine: Mediterranean Mojo, O’Syrah, Trah Lah Lah, Les Americains, and Proprietor’s Reserve.
To discover the other estates reviewed in the article “Estranhièrs in Languedoc-Roussillon“, you’ll have to subscribe to the Purple Pages! You’ll get to read about some of my good friends in the Languedoc and Roussillon. The estates included in the reviews are Rives Blanques, Domaine Treloar, Domaine Ste-Croix, Domaine Jones, Chateau D’Angles (which we actually considered buying in 2004!), and Chateau des Estanilles (who has a long overdue Love That Languedoc episode in the pipes).
