100 Points Jeb Dunnuck
Another perfect wine is the 2019 OVID, which is based on 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Cabernet Franc, 5% Merlot, and the rest Petit Verdot. Incredibly perfumed, nuanced, and complex, it has ripe black and blue fruits as well as notes of gravelly earth, tobacco, lead pencil shavings, and truffle. Insanely pure, full-bodied, and perfectly balanced, with fine tannins, this is another heavenly wine from this team and offers everything you could want from wine.
 
98 Points Decanter
 
It is a skyscraper of a wine, with power, energy, grace, and a savoury profile that belies its place under the ample California sunshine. Impressively fresh, with dark, youthful brooding aromas of inky black fruits intermingling with savoury fresh thyme and sage, crushed minerals, blue agave, and smoky cedar. Full-bodied and tension-filled with expressive boysenberry and plum fruits, balanced by the saturating power and unctuousness of just-crushed fresh-picked blackberries. The towering structure is composed of long and angular fine-grained tannins. The finish reveals a torrent of refined brown baking spices and more cedar with the tightly wound, coiled-up energy of a Napa Cabernet that will impress for decades. Simply put, wow.
 
96 Points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
 
Ovid's 2019 Red Wine—a blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Cabernet Franc and 5% each Merlot and Petit Verdot—boasts classic Napa mountain notes of black cherries and cassis, intermixed with hints of dried sage. It's full-bodied and concentrated yet still fresh and vibrant, without being as brash or bold as the 2019 Hexameter. Complex, refined and even elegant, it finishes long and savory, adding a welcome bass note of mocha. 
 
96 Points James Suckling
 
Red currants and lead pencil with roses. Medium-bodied and hemmed in, giving really fine and polished tannins that run the length of the wine. Firm and racy.
 
Winemaker Notes
The 2019 OVID Napa Valley red wine is certainly our best effort yet. Perfectly ripe mulberry, bay laurel, cassis and red tobacco leaf intermingle with boysenberry, fresh plum, cerise and iodine. Beautifully balanced, this taut and powerful vintage delivers mouthwatering freshness, intensity and poise that will continue to reveal its many delightful layers for decades to come. Blend: 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Cabernet Franc, 5% Merlot, Petit Verdot