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L'Aventure - Optimus - Paso Robles 2023

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L'Aventure - Optimus - Paso Robles 2023

The estate :

Stephan Asseo, owner and winemaker at L’Aventure Winery, began making wine in 1982. In that same year, Stephan established Domaine de Courteillac in Bordeaux. He and his family later purchased Chateau Fleur Cardinal and Chateau Robin in the Cotes de Castillion in Bordeaux.

Over the next 15 years, Stephan developed into an artisan winemaker of fastidious craftsmanship and gained a “maverick” reputation. His true desire was to be more innovative than AOC law would allow.

In 1996, this led him, his wife Beatrice and their 3 children, on a journey to pursue his ideal as a winemaker. In 1997, after one year of research, they fell in love with a unique terroir in the west side Paso Robles. And L’Aventure began in 1998!

The 2023 vintage

The 2023 vintage was marked by a very wet winter, a slow start tospring, and a cool, steady summer punctuated by just a few shortheatwaves. Everything came later than usual—budbreak, flowering,veraison, and ultimately harvest—giving the vineyard plenty of timeto do the heavy lifting. Fruit ripened slowly and fully, developingremarkable concentration, balance, and complexity.

The resulting wines are defined by texture, elegance, fine tannins,freshness, and long finishes. They offer tremendous volume andflesh without being exuberant, striking a beautiful balance betweenpower and refinement. Across the entire lineup, the 2023 wines arebalanced, complex, and unmistakably L’Aventure.
Couleur Rouge
Cépages Syrah 54 %
Cabernet Sauvignon 23 %
Petit Verdot 23 %
Appellation Paso Robles
Millesime 2023
Contenance Bouteille (75 cl)
Jamessuckling.com
Jamessuckling.com
    96

byCourtney Humistonthe9/18/2026

A silky, rich yet balanced wine with aromas and flavors of violets, crushed blackberry, bramble and wild blueberries. Bitter flower petals, orange peel and an iron-like minerality as well. Full-bodied with a long, refined finish and fine chalky tannins. An estate vineyard blend of syrah, cabernet sauvignon and petit verdot. Drink now.

Jeb DUNNUCK
Jeb DUNNUCK
    96

byJeb Dunnuckthe9/10/2026

A gorgeous, sensational effort, the 2023 Optimus is based on 54% Syrah, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 23% Petit Verdot and aged 18 months in 37% new French oak with the balance in once-used wood. Rocking aromatics of darker berries, peppery herbs, graphite, liquid violets, and some classic Paso minerality define the bouquet, and it's medium to full-bodied, focused, and beautifully balanced on the palate, with ripe tannins. It's up with the best Optimus to date. If you're an L'Aventure fan, buy this. Drink 2026-2041.

Falstaff
Falstaff
    93

byPeter Moserthe9/7/2026

Dense, powerful bouquet with Black Forest cherry, ground black pepper, cassis, dried herbs and a touch of espresso. Good density, juicy, with fine-grained tannin, a good core and a refined line of acidity. Delicate, dense red-to-blue berry fruit with blueberries, currants and a touch of cayenne pepper on the finish. Good length.

The Drinks Business
The Drinks Business
    95

byColin Haythe8/31/2026

A little known fact: Optimus itself is a simple concatenation of ‘Opus One’ and ‘Dominus’. You can see why in a vintage like this. We have lovely parfumier’s floral essences. Violet and iris. Candlewax and incense. Crystalline is form, glossy in texture, this is quite solar, but in a very measured way. It has lovely poise and charm, impressive concentration but also great delineation and clarity in the midpalate. Truly excellent for what is, in effect, a second wine. Here the Côte Rotie similarities are very evident. 95.

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
    92

byJane Ansonthe7/7/2026

Balanced vintage overall, concentrated with an enjoyable sense of restraint, vivid lift, baking spices, cumin, turmeric, blackberry and loganberry fruit. Unfiltered and unfined. Chloe Asseo director, Stephan Asseo owner and winemaker, from the Willow Creek district of Paso Robles. Mix of one year old and new oak, 63% new oak in this vintage.

Vinous
Vinous
    93

byEric Guidothe6/9/2026

The 2023 Optimus is bright and vibrant, with a burst of crushed raspberries, sweet sage, nuances of exotic spice and pine shavings. Silken yet spry, it races across the palate with rose-laced red berry fruit and a licorice tinge. Edgy tannins resonate, offset by a residual bump of brisk acidity as the 2023 finishes long yet remarkably fresh. This is deceptively approachable today, yet also built for the cellar.

Jeb DUNNUCK
Jeb DUNNUCK
    93-95

byJeb Dunnuckthe8/18/2024

Tasted out of barrel, the 2023 Optimus is a medium to full-bodied, ripe, yet nicely focused barrel sample that has remarkable purity in its darker fruits, graphite, peppery herbs, and chalky, mineral-laced aromas and flavors. I love its tannins, as well as its overall balance.

Information : Details :
Couleur Rouge
Cépages Syrah 54 %
Cabernet Sauvignon 23 %
Petit Verdot 23 %
Appellation Paso Robles
Millesime 2023
Contenance Bouteille (75 cl)

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