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• salil wrote: 87 points

  March 7, 2024 - WCC 2004 California Cab Blind Tasting (Fort Orange Club, Albany, NY): One of those wines that seems well made and impressive but not really enjoyable. Plenty of black fruit and oak here, but not a lot of complexity otherwise and rather charmless.

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• kenv Likes this wine: 95 points

  March 7, 2024 - WCC 2004 California Cab Blind Tasting (Fort Orange Club, Albany, NY): [Double decanted all at 1:00 PM, recorked at 5:00 PM.] Smoky black currant nose. This is still young, but already long and complex. Seems a little more Bordeaux-like than the previous wines. I suspect this isn't 100% Cabernet Sauvignon.

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• Cholera Likes this wine: 99 points

  December 30, 2023 - Amazing bottle of wine. Sampled with other exquisite bordeaux and bordeaux blend wines that night and this easily won WOTN. Still, black inky color with tremendous nose of black cherries, rose, liquorice, toast and jasmine perfume. Mouthfeel was light, ephemeral like a pomerol without the weight. Tannins were there, barely, yet the fruit was not heady or over bearing. Earth notes of forrest floor and graphite, cherry and other black frutis, but VELVET smooth. Long lasting finish that waffted through the back palate and into the nose. Tremedous wine

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• aif wrote: 85 points

  November 23, 2023 - This may have been a bad bottle or a storage issue, but this wine was very disappointing. Even over the course of several hours it never amounted to much. Nose and palate were bland. Occasional hints of menthol but nothing of note. Mostly just tired tasting and a little sad.

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• mxpbuy Likes this wine: 94 points

  September 5, 2023 - Decanted an hour. Almost a teaspoon of sediment. My first Dominus from a 21st century vintage. I prefer the more classic style of the 80s and 90s vintages, but this was still really great for what it is. A very fruit forward and nearly jammy wine filled with waves of blackberries, black cherry and touch of plum and black raspberry. Lush and velvety. Some sweet vanilla Oak. A long finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Dominus
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Estate
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Codes 636495114757, 636595102753, 636595104153, 636595104757, 636595106751, 636595115753, 636595196752, 636595212759

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• Pending Delivery 11 (0%)
• In Cellars 3,817 (62%)
• Consumed 2,292 (37%)

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