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2023 Château Le Dome

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5/4/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 points

Flowers, espresso, sandalwood, smoke, black plums, and black cherries create the perfume. The palate offers a rich layer of salty black cherries, plums, licorice, and chocolate. Equally lush, and racy, this is going to be even better with a few years of aging. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Franc with 20% Merlot, 14.1% ABV. The harvest took place September 20 - October 2. Drink from 2028-2052. 95-97 Pts.

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5/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote: 96 points

95-97 Punkte. Was für ein Duft, Cabernet Franc Würze in Reinkultur; am Gaumen mit viel Kraft und reifer, satter Frucht, feinmaschiges, markantes Tannin, grosse Harmonie. Modern im Stil, perfekt vinifiziert. (En Primeur Tasting April 2024, 14.1 Alkohol)

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2017 Château Le Dome

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4/15/2024 - Yohansmas Likes this wine: NR

라스트 보틀발 르돔을 드디어 먹어봤다.
결론부터 말하자면 나올때 마다 사서 1년에 한병씩 마셔도 꽤나 재미있을 듯.
10만원대에서 구하기 어려운 것은 차치하더라도 퀄리티 자체가 10만원대에서 만나기가 어려운 수준이다.

노즈에서는 마치 박하사탕같은 민트향이 먼저 느껴진다.
이어서 요거트같은 젖산발효향도 느껴지는데 이게 아마 호불호가 갈릴듯 싶다.
과실향도 나는데 당연하게도 검은 과실 향이다.

이게 영빈이라 그런건지 모르겠지만 산도가 꽤나 강한 편이다.
아주 약간의 커피같은 맛도 느껴지는데 강한 편은 아니다.
요즘 보르도가 영빈도 접근성 높게 만든다는데 그 여파려나?

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2009 Château Le Dome

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4/14/2024 - Purple Tooth wrote: 95 points

Deep inky and saturated, the 2009 le Dome was another poster child for all the big scoring wines of the “perfect “ and woozy twin vintages. The wood is integrated and the big wine shows no signs of over treatment as many big saint emilion did, do, and unfortunately will. Really plush with a ton of fruit, and some warm baking spices swimming in the sum of it all. Very well made and delicious, but definitely more napaesque than bordeaux. A lovely wine. I say this at full peak and should be drank in this obvious end of the fresh stage. I dont think that this is a wine that you want to age further. There’s allot to be loved here right now. DRINK

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2017 Château Le Dome

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4/11/2024 - pakabear Likes this wine: 91 points

Initially a bit thin but gains weight after a few hours in a decanter. I'd give this a few years.

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2009 Château Le Dome

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4/3/2024 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 points

Decanted to serve. Cassis, chocolate, dark fruit, and violets on the nose. Palate was modern and rich but it had regalness, without being too big or overwhelming. It possessed weightless power. This is as good as a modern Bordeaux can be. It reminded me of an elegant version of Harlan Estate.

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2017 Château Le Dome

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3/23/2024 - mpsocal wrote: flawed

Brett got this one, what a disappointment.

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2015 Château Le Dome

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3/16/2024 - Millennial Drinkers wrote: 95 points

Deep ruby red. Layered nose with black berries, violets, bark and baking spices. Medium plus tannins (7/10) with a medium plus to full body. Well balanced with fruits and tertiary layers. Long finish. Drink till 2036.

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2010 Château Le Dome

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3/7/2024 - NEducatedGes wrote: 95 points

Floral, clean red and blue fruit, great structure and balance, tannins refined. 95!

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2021 Château Le Dome

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3/9/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 points

Ocean breezes, cherries, and cocoa pop in the bouquet. On the palate, the wine is supple, vibrant, fresh and salty, which helps you focus on its savory, sweet, tart, bright, salty, minty characteristics. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Franc with 20% Merlot, including fruit normally placed into Les Asteries, which was not produced this year. 2021 is the first vintage produced in their new, show-piece cellars. Drink from 2026-2045.

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2014 Château Le Dome

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2/23/2024 - PMJak11 Likes this wine: 95 points

Really good. More Napa than Bordeaux in my mind. Medium plus depth with dark fruit and some cedar with tobacco. Really enjoyed this!

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2009 Château Le Dome

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2/14/2024 - jbcab992 Likes this wine: 96 points

Very good.

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2000 Château Le Dome

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1/27/2024 - Mpalumbo wrote: 80 points

No highs no lows pretty even and consistent decanted for 4+ hours vary mild and steady. Did not die off over time.

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2000 Château Le Dome

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1/27/2024 - Mpalumbo wrote: 80 points

No highs no lows pretty even and consistent decanted for 4+ hours vary mild and steady. Did not die off over time really no no the bowl characteristics to speak of.

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2017 Château Le Dome

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1/26/2024 - econnertx Likes this wine: 89 points

Started off tasting as a Napa Bordeaux style (new world). Tannin laced with not as much flavor, but it opened up a bit. 80% cab needs 1.5 hours or more to breath and perhaps let the 20% merlot take over to appreciate the silkiness. Chocolate and dark plum lead. deep purple

Try this again in 2-3 years and let is decant

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2009 Château Le Dome

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1/9/2024 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 points

Flash decant to serve. It was a beautifully crafted right bank with inner perfume, truffle, red fruit, dark currant, and vanilla. Palate was slightly modern with excellent precision and elegance. It was smooth, layered and regal. A really terrific young Bordeaux wine.

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2017 Château Le Dome

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12/24/2023 - mpsocal Likes this wine: 92 points

Good stuff, give it plenty of time to open up, it evolves nicely. I get some red fruits with some floral notes.

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2010 Château Le Dome

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12/22/2023 - NEducatedGes Likes this wine: 95 points

Amazing! Allowed 3 hrs slow ox & and decanted. Tasted next to canon la G 2009 and was 1+pts better @95+. Beautiful clean unique nose and wonderful finish with refined tannins and plenty to blue/ dark red fruit.

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2017 Château Le Dome

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12/7/2023 - dera Likes this wine: 91 points

Dark garnet. Nose has chocolate, licorice, blackberries, coffee, pretty floral notes and a very distinct note I often get from Cab Franc that I can't really describe. Palate is medium bodied, has a touch of grip from tannins, red fruit driven, espresso, little bell pepper. Finishes medium and pleasant. Good stuff, needs more time.

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2015 Château Le Dome

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11/17/2023 - DrELW Likes this wine: 95 points

Drank with friends last night. Probably the best young Bordeaux that I've ever drunk. It's full bodied with no rough edges and fine tannins.

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2011 Château Le Dome

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11/10/2023 - Juliansi Likes this wine: 89 points

Prepared this with a 5 hour bottle breathe, but it's still tight and certainly did not show on this occassion.

I agree with DQ, the mouthfeel is unavoidably slightly thin. Nose opened up, but this Cab Franc (80%, Merlot 20%) dominant Le Dome has so much more potential! Tannins grainy and grippy, and oddly acidity medium+ to ++.

Rather untypical of a high quality Saint-Émilion!

This was my bottle, brought to dinner welcoming AS back, joined at La Sense with DQ, SKT, LMC and WMK. One of 11 bottles we had over... 4 hours.

2011 Bordeaux vintage is often described as a poor vintage, in comparison to the brilliant 2010 and 2009. I do agree with this as with the 2011s I have had the privilege to enjoy, they were good but never great; Lynch-Bages (Shy), Pontet-Canet (Lacks typicity), Talbot (Lean), and Canon (Short finish).

The weather throughout the growing season was "freakish" as both the winter and spring were dry with the latter becoming very hot, resulting in an early budburst. Arid and drought-like April, moved into a warm May with the earliest flowering on record!

Over the summer.. Cabernet Sauvignon was vulnerable to sunburn. This was followed by sunshine, rain, risk of rot, and wildly fluctuating temperatures in August. Overall this resulted in grapes never achieving a rich concentration.

Sept's weather was again warm, followed by frequent storms an uneven ripening. There was even a vicious hail storm near the northern Médoc and in Saint-Estèphe right before the harvest.

Whilst much of the reds in Cab Sauv and Merlot on the Left Bank failed to achieve full ripeness, Cab Franc performed reasonably well, especially in Pomerol and Saint-Émilion. These top estates produced wines with fresh aromatic red fruit character and rich tannins, but they tended to be slightly more acidic.

Jonathan Maltus is an Englishman, and is touted by Robert Parker (Wine Advocate) as: A “visionary, self-styled revolutionary” and “the English winemaking guru”.

Maltus still lives in Château Teyssier, and has Parker's 100 point rating of Le Dome 2010 to thank for perhaps putting him on the map!

Why did he start with Château Teyssier in Bordeaux?
It seems Maltus could not afford the left bank because the properties are huge, many over 80 to 100 hectares, and he described that "they were all owned by insurance companies."

On the right bank in Saint Emilion, the average sized properties are 3 or 4 hectares, which was within his budget. With Teyssier in 1994, he was "Just marginally happy if the wine turned out red!".

What are “garage” wines", compared to Bordeaux’s more famous labels?

Jonathan Maltus described that they were called micro-cuvée wines.

He describes that this is just like in Le Pin;
Take a small property, crop the bunches down, make wine in a more Burgundian way than Bordeaux, and sell at a high price if you get a good rating.

It seems that this was the model for the garagistes movement, which really started in 1992.

Michel Bettane, who’s the French equivalent of Robert Parker, was asked what he thought of these wines.
He said "they are so small they could be made in a garage!"
Jonathan Maltus exclaims that Bettane wasn’t actually being nice about it!!

Jonathan Maltus finally landed in Bordeaux, at Château Teyssier, 5.5ha of vines in Vignonet, just outside St-Emilion. It cost him then only £1.2m, ‘with the renovations.’ And, in 1996 he bought the three hectares which is now Le Dôme, on the Côtes, the limestone hillsides surrounding the town.

Interestingly, when Jonathan Maltus purchased the first vines for the property, he thought he was buying Merlot. It was not until a few weeks later that he discovered he actually bought Cabernet Franc!

The terroir is sand over layers of iron in the soil. The vineyard is planted to a vine density of 5,750 vines per hectare. New plantings are done at higher levels of density at 7,000 vines per hectare.

In a concerted effort to reduce the yields, Jonathan Maltus conducts three green harvests a year in his tiny vineyard. To further concentrate the wine and keep yields low, they prune to allow only 4 grape bunches per vine.

The estate covers parcels located near Château Canon, Château Beau-Séjour Bécot and Château Angélus which were previously part of Vieux Chateau Mazerat. This was of course an unclassified vineyard, with production begining in 1996 by "garagiste" principles.

The vineyard is 3.2 hectares or only 8 acres, and composed of 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot.

This translates to an annual production of 1,600 cases, or under 20 k bottles.

10 Nov 2023
Le Sense next to Farm to Plate, Damansara, Malaysia
Early Diwali celebration with brother AS, and DQ, SKT, LMC as well as WMK

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2010 Château Le Dome

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10/31/2023 - melvinyeowq wrote: 90 points

Winefield's dinner: Not my style, blue and purple extracted fruit with a huge tannin structure. Didn’t finish the glass, but better than the awful '09 Tertre Roteboeuf that I tried last month. Have to say this was well-made for fans of this style.

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2001 Château Le Dome

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10/31/2023 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 91 points

Bordeaux 2000 & 2001 Horizontal (Piccolino, Exchange Square, London): Darker fruits than the Figeac. There's a real pencil lead character from the high Cab Franc contents. Later some smoke and subtle hint of watermelon. My neighbour also correctly identifies an oyster shell minerality. Tannins remain grippy but once again fine boned. A real more-ish savouriness to this and doesn't feel overworked at all.

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10/31/2023 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 90 points

Neil's 2000 & 2001 Bordeauxs (Piccolino, London): Deep red. Immediate green pepper freshness. This is the sweetest of the three, and the most advanced, and along with this there is some rusticity (perhaps from the high proportion of Cab Franc) that is quite delightful - an easy drinker par excellence although it can't match its flight mates this evening. Very atypical, I don't think I would have even got to Bordeaux if this had been served blind. Very nice and in a good spot.

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2001 Château Le Dome

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10/31/2023 - SimonG wrote: 93 points

Neil’s 2000/01 Bordeaux @ Piccolino: A little closer to garnet. Again, a nicely herbaceous blackcurrant nose. Surprisingly grippy, plenty of fine tannin. Nicely balanced but could do with food. Mulberry and a touch of raspberry as it opens up. Quite impressive. ****

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