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  • Country ranking ?

    273
  • Producer ranking ?

    22
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Game

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The Story

Dominus is created by French winemaker Christian Moueix, who crafted the wines of Chateau Petrus (a bottle of which recently sold at auction as one of the most expensive wines ever sold). The Dominus estate owns the historic Napanook Vineyard that was the base of so many of the historic Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignons of the 1950s and 1960s. It is considered one of the finest reds of Napa Valley.

Christian Moueix’s approach to creating wines ...

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Wine Information

DOMINUS 1987

The 1987 Dominus Estate is the fifth vintage produced by the John Daniel Society made solely from grapes grown at their Napanook Vineyard in Yountville, California.

The blend of the 1987 Dominus Estate is 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Merlot. Winter rainfall for the 1987 season was 50% of average. The very warm early summer and moderate late summer resulted in fruit with fully developed varietal character...

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Tasting note

color

Medium

ending

Long and Spicy

flavors

Blackcurrant, Plum, Mint, Cedar and Herbs

nose

Intense, Complex, Refined and Round

recommend

Yes

taste

Complex, Concentrated, Well-structured, Medium-bodied, Firm, Rich and Ripe

Written Notes

The rainfall this year was half the average. A very warm early summer turned into a moderately warm ending enhancing the grapes to obtain their crisp acidity. Winemaking was classically non-interventionist. Blend of 88 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 9 percent Cabernet Franc and 3 percent Merlot. The wine spent 14 months in French oak, of which 25 percent were new. A medium-intense garnet colour with tawny tints. Very concentrated, ripe blackcurrant nose with plums, cedar and spicy aromas. Medium-bodied palate reveals moderately high refreshing acidity, firm tannins and herbaceous dark fruity aromas of cassis and plums mixed with hints of mint. Long and admirably balanced finish with spicy oak character. Drinking well now but will easily keep another decade.
  • 93p

There was such leafiness to this wine that it tasted more Bordeaux than California, but then this was for long the accusation Californians made about Christian Moueix of LIbourne's Napa Valley wine. This was beautifully silky and fresh with, admittedly, a character those hooked on extended hang time might dismiss as 'green' but the balance and persistence were both impressive. This wine was a lot older than anything tasted in this recent vertical of Dominus but it had hung on gracefully.

  • 91p
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Origin

Yountville, Napa Valley
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