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| | Vintage | 2014 |  Label 1 of 628 
 | | Type | Red | | Producer | Dominus (web) | | Variety | Red Bordeaux Blend | | Designation | Estate | | Vineyard | n/a | | Country | USA | | Region | California | | SubRegion | Napa Valley | | Appellation | Napa Valley | | UPC Code(s) | 000038407734, 001102807867, 006348700486, 5640597114756, 636595106751, 636595107758, 636595114152, 636595114374, 636595114756, 636595115753, 636595212759, 636595214753, 7646393174756 |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.1 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 66 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by jcampano on 4/12/2024 & rated 92 points: Drank side by side a 2017 O’Shaughnessy Mt Veeder, and I must say that the O’Shaughnessy was much better. The Dominus had moderate aromas of red cherry, cedar and graphite. The palate was muted with black cherry and a bit smoky, soft tannins and virtually a 5-second finish. (639 views) | | | Tasted by Schiffy on 3/8/2024 & rated 96 points: Even after 10 years in the bottle, the tannins seem young and need even more time to flex their taste buds. This bordeaux gets better each year with its ripe blackberry fruit but at the same time, with complex secondary flavors of mushroom, tobacco, licorice and cedar wood. There are hints of forest floor on the finish but I would call this wine earthy. Somehow each year this wine delivers new world fruit in a beautifully complex way unlike other wines from the Napa Valley. (1085 views) | | | Tasted by LBDWine on 2/16/2024: KIS young vintage (1324 views) | | | Tasted by 831900_ on 2/2/2024 & rated 92 points: Very clean, polished, ultra smooth tannin feel. Intense fruit. Pleasantly singular, straight, not super complex at this stage or perhaps this vintage. (1466 views) | | | Tasted by Jerseyjudge on 1/14/2024 & rated 93 points: Decanted for two hours and drink over another 2-3. Reminds me of many great 2014 Cabernets with deep and rich licorice and cassis notes. It was not reminding me of my favorite vintages of Dominus, at this stage. It lacks complexity and seems a bit less persistent than usual. Maybe time is needed. Will be back for more. (1673 views) | | | Tasted by alexbhurst1678 on 12/31/2023: Drank around end of December '23; smooth, delightful, light in the glass with a tender finish; drank a bottle of Promontory '14 around the same time and it's not even close; Dominus is the winner; hints of berries and fruit aromatics that leave you wanting more as opposed to wishing you hadn't been hit over the head with flavor. (1406 views) | | | Tasted by garrigue65 on 12/29/2023 & rated 95 points: Still quite young. Decanted for four hours. Really well built Bordeaux Style Napa. Dark fruit, tobacco, mid palate cedar / some graphite. Very long finish with significant tannins. Really very nice with dark chocolate cake. Leave in the cellar for another five years IMHO. (1192 views) | | | Tasted by WineCPA on 9/21/2023 & rated 96 points: Outstanding! Very well balanced. Medium-full bodied. Medium tannins that are integrating. Black and red fruit but not jammy in the least. Graphite, leather and rose petal on the nose. Can go much longer but beautiful now. (1945 views) | | | Tasted by PascalC on 7/6/2023 & rated 93 points: Disappointing, missing opulence. (2302 views) | | | Tasted by chialuvwines on 5/27/2023 & rated 92 points: Beautiful Napa (886 views) | | | Tasted by Justinwine on 5/21/2023 & rated 90 points: Not showing especially well. A bit one dimensional for me. Will it improve? Most likely . (2282 views) | | | Tasted by mchern02 on 5/4/2023 & rated 93 points: 2 Hour Decant
Dark color, great nose of graphite and chocolate. Deep and rich, not overly fruity. Big but not fruit forward. Needs a decant but good dimensionality. (2426 views) | | | Tasted by aquaman on 3/20/2023 & rated 97 points: This one was drank next to 2010 opus one. This one win (2800 views) | | | Tasted by BrionHammond on 3/3/2023 & rated 95 points: Secound bottle in 5 months. Great cabernet. This is not a full throttle Napa. It has some oldworld in the style. Perfect with a rib-eye (2306 views) | | | Tasted by dream on 12/17/2022 & rated 93 points: Dense and quite youthful balancing rich Napa fruit with a Bordeaux sensibility. The finish shows a lovely graphite mineral flavor with developing complexity. Should have an excellent future but still enjoyable tonight with a long decant. Off the list at Claud, NYC. 93+ (2830 views) | | | Tasted by oncocyte on 12/16/2022 & rated 91 points: A pleasant drink, an excellent value for perhaps $35. I’m just not getting any concentration, depth or integration of tannins which frankly, I’m not detecting enough of. Removed from original wood case, not a hint of brett, well stored, consider me disapointed. Open 5 hours now. (2238 views) | | | Tasted by A&C on 11/26/2022 & rated 92 points: Nice Cali Cab fruit. Integrated. Ready to drink now. Made a spectacular turkey soup with 7 vegetables with Thanksgiving leftovers. Wanted a pop and pour to drink with the soup, and to watch all of the great football games on tonight. Utah v. Colorado. Oregon v. Oregon State. USC v. Notre Dame and Washington v. Washington State. Go Utes!! Anyway, the perfect choice for the soup and the night. Enjoyed the wine. Great and ready to go now. No need to wait!! (2349 views) | | | Tasted by Michal A on 11/25/2022 & rated 92 points: Dark fruit, very dense and concentrated flavour. Still quite young. (2018 views) | | | Tasted by JP75Wine on 11/5/2022 & rated 92 points: Deeply concentrated blackberry and raspberry preserves. Ultra supple, fine grained tannins. This Dominus seems to focus on texture above all else. (2292 views) | | | Tasted by VinhoVerde on 8/17/2022 & rated 93 points: Deep red color. Ripe, intense dark fruit bouquet. Soft supple fruit on the palate that displays excellent length. This is powerful California Cabernet that should easily drink well over the next 4-6 years. (2568 views) | | | Tasted by jimyeni on 8/16/2022 & rated 95 points: 2 hour decant, drank over 2 hours. Needed the time in the decanter for sure. Beautiful wine, restrained yet expressive and very balanced. Very much enjoyed. (2447 views) | | | Tasted by Burgnick on 6/9/2022: Not as sexy as the 14 Insignia but it is still fairly enjoyable for a young Napa. (2990 views) | | | Tasted by ayalao3 on 3/17/2022 & rated 95 points: Slightly more oxidized for the age. Last place in our 2013-2018 vertical. (3400 views) | | | Tasted by Cailles on 12/20/2021 & rated 91 points: 11x Bdx & Bdx Blends from around the World: Tasted double blind. I’m usually a fan of Dominus but this bottle did not perform. First and foremost the balance was off with not enough acidity balancing all the substance and sweetness. The wine seemed quite flabby. Second, the wine was not yet fully open on the nose. After the reveal and towards the end of the evening I went back to taste it again with consistent results. Maybe it’s in an awkward phase and will need time to better integrate and get harmonious or the wine was decanted too long. I’ve had the 2015 (rated 97 pts) recently and it showed more layered and much more balanced with a higher acidity (which one wouldn’t expect in a 2014 vs 2015 comparison).
TN: Medium- expressive with ripe dark fruit, minerality, a touch of heat, herbs. Seems to have quite a lo of substance but is quite closed. With time opened up. On the palate this shows quite nice with ripe but not too ripe dark fruit, a beautiful sweetness, herbs and minerality. Despite being young the tannins are luxurious, very fine, slightly velvety. The acidity is medium- only and well-integrated which is not high enough. Medium+ complexity and medium+ precision. This is quite quaffable with a medium length, sweet finish. Overall missing a touch of complexity/precision but especially the acidity to truly excite.
Decanting: Decanted for roughly 4 hours (J_H mentioned that the wine was in shut down mode in the beginning). Not sure if the 4 hours did the wine a favor, though.
Group rank (9 ppl.): 9th out of 10 wines (5887 views) | | | Tasted by La Sprezzatura on 12/4/2021 & rated 91 points: not an expressive nose at all, I had the impression that this was rather closed. some cassis, wood and vanilla. ripe dark fruits.
on the palate closed as well. this was a disappointment. would recommend to decant for at least 2-3h. (1557 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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| Dominus Producer websiteRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.EstateIn the United States, "Wines with “estate bottled” designations must: a) also designate an appellation of origin or an AVA, and both the vineyards and the winery must be located there; b) the grapes must come from vineyards owned or controlled by the winery; and c) the wine must have been produced, from crush to bottle, in a continuous process without leaving the winery’s premises."
- WINE LABEL FAQS: A QUICK SUMMARY OF LABEL DESIGNATION RULES" by David E. StollUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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