Opi d'Aqui Red Wine Bundle
- Opi d'Aqui Les Faineants 2020 - Red Wine RRP $50
- Opi d'Aqui Les Cliquets 2020 - Red Wine RRP $48
- Opi d'Aqui Massale 2020 - Red Wine RRP $61
Price is inclusive of GST.
Les Faineants red wine has a delicious blend of fruity and spicy flavours on the palate, as well as traces of cherry liqueur, capsicum, and hibiscus, all of which are balanced by a mild pandan scent. Les Cliquets has undertones of white pepper, mint, and tobacco along with aromas of strawberry, cherry, and red currant on the nose. These aromas serve as a taster for the rich and energizing flavours that are to come. Massale has scents of hawthorns, plum, cedar, roselle, and mint, it gives an appealing complexity that tantalises and enthrals the palate.
OPI D'AQUI
Philippe Formentin started Opi d’Aqui in 2012. He’s from Montpellier, “capital” of the Languedoc on the Mediterranean coast, but after making wines around the world, the globe-trotting winemaker is doing his thing in Clermont-l'Hérault, just an hour north of his hometown.
Philippe works with two growers providing him with certified organic and some biodynamic grapes from seven hectares of vines in neighboring villages, primarily on clay-limestone soils. Varieties include Grenache Blanc, Picpoul, Marsanne, Vermentino, Clairette, Grenache Noir, Mourvèdre, Carignan and Syrah. Philippe chooses when to send in his small team of pickers and grapes are always hand-picked, early in the morning when it’s still cool to avoid the beating Languedoc sun. Fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts in a mix of fibreglass and steel tanks and there are no sulphites or other additives used during the wine making process. None of Philippe’s wines are fined or filtered. From the destemmed grapes of Les Faineants to the carbonic maceration of Massale, his wines always have a freshness and leave you wanting more.
