Fine Dining Wine at Opus 5

 

While Opus 5 is revered for serving delicious, inventive American cuisine with Asian accents, this popular Boca Raton restaurant is also well-known for its fine dining wine service. The Opus 5 wine list was called “distinguished” in a restaurant review in the Sun-Sentinel. While talented Executive Chef John Belleme consistently turns out scrumptious dishes in the kitchen, savvy Beverage Manager/Sommelier Zach Smith always matches the perfect wine to every course.

 

A wine connoisseur and a dedicated sommelier, Smith has held positions in the hospitality industry for the past thirty years. He spent half a year creating the noteworthy fine dining wine service at Opus 5. Featuring approximately 150 wonderful wines, from around the world, Smith’s service includes wines from some small boutique California wineries, such as Vine Cliff Winery and Loring Wine Company in Santa Lucia Highlands, Newton Winery in the Napa Valley, and DuMol Vineyards in the Russian River Valley. In addition to California offerings, this outstanding fine dining wine service also features wines from France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, Portugal, Canada, and Germany. The Opus 5 wine list is broken down geographically and lightest to fullest: Champagnes and Sparkling Wines, Lighter International Whites, Richer International Whites, Lighter American Whites, Richer American Whites, French Reds, Spanish and Italian Reds, Southern Hemisphere Reds, American Cabernet Sauvignon and Blends, American Merlot, American Pinot Noir, and American Alternative Reds.

 

The four-page wine list offers a diverse selection of distinctive wines, including some hard-to-find labels from North and South America, the Old World, and the New World.
The Opus 5 wine list also contains plenty of special occasion wine bottles and superb Champagnes such as Krug Brut 1990 Champagne, from France; Dom Perignon 1998, from France; Gosset Grand Rose Champagne, from France; Alex Gambal Chassagne-Montrachet La Maltroie Premier Cru (a deluxe chardonnay from France); Rudd Estate Sauvignon Blanc from the Napa Valley; Kistler Chardonnay from California’s Sonoma Coast; Gaja Magari, a Super Tuscan from Italy; Henry’s Drive Shiraz, from Australia; and Spottswoode Cabernet, from the Napa Valley.

 

There are also premium dessert wines such as Inniskillin Vidal Ice Wine, from Canada, and Sandeman’s 20-year Tawny Port and Warre’s 1985 Vintage Port, both from Portugal.

 

This Boca Raton restaurant offers a wide range of prices to suit every diner. Wines by the bottle range from $24, for Beringer White Zinfandel from California, to $440, for the Krug Brut 1990 Champagne from France. Wines by the glass range in price from $6.50 to $17. Additionally, diners who own special bottles of wine are encouraged to bring them to Opus 5, and enjoy them with their meals, throughout the year. There is a $25 corkage fee, per bottle.

 

Please download the list of wines featured in Opus 5's fine dining wine service.