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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 ...
Wine Information
The 1986 Dominus Estate is the fourth vintage produced by the John Daniel Society, and, as always, the grapes for this wine were grown solely at Napanook Vineyard in Yountville, California. This vintage marks the first of the “second series” of Dominus Estate — the 1986, 1987, and 1988 vintages use Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc in the blend, which introduces a floral, herbal character and added complexity.
The varietal compo...
Vuosikerta 1986
The 1986 California wine vintage—most notably across Napa Valley and Sonoma County—stands as a classic, high-caliber vintage that yielded deeply concentrated, ageworthy Cabernet Sauvignons and well-structured Chardonnays. Following a unusually wet winter and early spring that included historic flooding in February, the growing season stabilized into a warm, warm-to-hot summer marked by sporadic late-season heatwaves.
This heat accelerated ...