1994 Dominus Estate Napanook Vineyard
Community Tasting Note
sirpat00 wrote:
Saturday, November 25, 2023 - 1983 vintage horizontal with >20 wines, mostly from Bordeaux. Key observations: 1/ Acceptable vintage for Champagne with DP over-delivering, 2/ Laville Haut Brion is a masterpiece among the whites, 3/ Bordeaux is going strong at 40 years of age with stand-outs Latour and Margaux. 4/ No need to chase any Napa’s from the vintage, 5/ off-piste Italians kept up impressively with Soldera an undisputed medalist.
Tasting note:
Double-decanted. An unusually bretty nose. Fresh and dense aromatically with fresh, on balance dark berry fruit and vegetal notes. Very structured with still quite grainy tannins, but well balanced. While good, the bertty notes were distracting and this is the weakest bottle I’ve tasted in the last 5 years (sample size of 7).
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Comment posted by Lipsman:
12/26/2023 5:18:00 PM - A 1994 Dominus at a 1983 tasting?
Comment posted by sirpat00:
1/8/2024 11:53:00 AM - Indeed... but this was after the "official" tasting where we just opened a few more bottles for the fun of it... we were still thirsty :)