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Region Producer Vintage Name Qty Unit Case Size Format Price Note Rating
California Dominus Estate 1987 Dominus 1 Case 6 75cl £1,050

  • Rating

    96

    Release Price

    $45 - 55

    Drink Date

    1993 - 2010

    Reviewed by

    Robert M. Parker, Jr.

    Issue Date

    26th Oct 1993

    Source

    89, The Wine Advocate

    There were 6,500 cases produced of the 1987 Dominus. It is one of the great wines of the vintage in a year when a handful of California producers made profound Cabernets (i.e., Robert Mondavi Reserve, Dunn Howell Mountain, and Chateau Montelena). The wine is beginning to shut down, but it still displays a rich ruby color and an intensely spicy, fragrant nose of toasty vanillin oak, cassis, and cedar. In the mouth, this medium to full-bodied wine displays considerable tannins, fine integrated acidity, and an opulent, rich, spicy finish. I would suggest cellaring it for another 3-4 years; it should easily keep through the first decade of the next century.

Tasting Notes
96
California Dominus Estate 2002 Dominus 1 Case 6 75cl £1,395
99
California Dominus Estate 2003 Dominus 1 Case 6 75cl £1,025
95
California Dominus Estate 2006 Dominus 2 Case 6 75cl £870
96
California Dominus Estate 2008 Dominus 1 Case 6 75cl £1,125

  • Made in a more masculine style, the 2008 Dominus has all of that along with bigger body and more structure, fat, density and texture. Both are brilliant wines and they represent the finest back-to-back vintages for Dominus since 2001 and 2002 or 1990 and 1991. Both the 2007 and 2008 Dominus should drink well for 25-30 years

Tasting Notes
99
California Dominus Estate 2010 Dominus 1 Case 6 75cl £1,400
100
California Dominus Estate 2014 Napanook 2 Case 6 75cl £465

  • Rating

    92

    Release Price

    $65 - 75

    Drink Date

    2016 - 2036

    Reviewed by

    Robert M. Parker, Jr.

    Issue Date

    28th Oct 2016

    Source

    227, The Wine Advocate

    The 2014s, where the production of Napanook was only 2,200 cases and Dominus slightly more than the 2015 at 4,000 cases, was another early harvest, although somewhat later than 2015. The 2014 Napanook is a blend of 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc and 9% Petit Verdot, showing notes of loamy earth, Christmas fruitcake, black cherry and blackcurrant fruit and underbrush in a supple, fragrant and lush heady style. It is another successful wine that should drink beautifully young and age nicely for up to 20 years.

    Christian Moueix’s Dominus Estate continues to be one of California’s leaders in turning out gorgeously elegant, complex and long-lived wines. A magnum of 1991 from my cellar tasted several weeks before I left for California was pure perfection and evidence that at 25 years old, before he had built his stunning winery, great quality was coming from this iconic vineyard. The 2015s are certainly going to be one of his all-time great vintages, rivaling 2013, 2012, 2007, 2002, 2001 and his earliest classics, such as 1994 and 1991. Production in 2015 was about 3,000 cases of Napanook and 3,800 cases of Dominus.

Tasting Notes
92
California Dominus Estate 2014 Dominus 3 Case 6 75cl £775
97
California Dominus Estate 2015 Dominus 2 Case 6 75cl £1,250
100
California Dominus Estate 2016 Dominus 1 Case 6 75cl £1,150

  • Rating

    100

    Release Price

    NA

    Drink Date

    2024 - 2054

    Reviewed by

     Lisa Perrotti-Brown

    Issue Date

    29th Oct 2018

    Source

    Mid-October 2018 New Releases, The Wine Advocate

    A blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Petit Verdot and 8% Cabernet Franc aged in 40% new oak, the 2016 Proprietary Red Wine is deep purple-black in color and quite reticent at this youthful stage to begin, offering up subtle notions of potpourri, Indian spices, cigar box and iron ore over a core of crushed blackberries and black cherries with intermittent wafts of black and red currants, new leather and smoked meats. The palate is medium to full-bodied with a densely packed mid-palate and oodles of freshness framed by very ripe, finely grained tannins and laced with compelling earthy accents. It offers incredible vibrancy with tons of black and red fruit sparkle in the mid-palate leading to a provocative mineral element on the very long finish. If I could give more than 100 for this one, I would. To be released in May 2019.

Tasting Notes
100
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