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This wine was tasted as part of 2010 Napa Valley at the NoMad Rooftop, which was held on April 22, 2015.
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Winemaker Tod Mostero describes 2010 as the most difficult year he has ever seen. A sudden and severe heat spike on August 24 scorched the vines, which weren't at all prepared for such extremes, as the year had been quite cold and moist up until then. The heat torched the vines and took with it 60% of the Cabernet Franc and 30% of the Petit Verdot crop. Production was the lowest since 1984, as quite a bit of wine was sold in bulk. As always, I tasted two bottles of each wine; the first was double decanted about 18 hours in advance, the other opened shortly before the tasting. I consistently preferred the double decanted bottles, and suggest readers follow the same approach when drinking these wines young.
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Temperatures were cooler than average from May through August of 2011, said winemaker Tod Mostero, but the nighttime lows were about average."Which means that we had lower diurnal ranges than usual, as the afternoon temperatures never really warmed up.We generally need more diurnal fluctuation to get real intensity, and yet there were some gorgeous lots in 2011, as temperatures were actually warmer than usual in September and October, but without heat spikes.But it was a humid year, beginning with a couple of wet periods in early summer, which is very rare here.In 2011 we had to pick before the botrytis spread."Mostero told me he "vinified for a light vintage," doing a gentle extraction.
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I was deeply impressed with the wines I tasted at Dominus this year, including the spectacular 2006 Dominus, which I promptly went out and added to my cellar. But back to the present. Christian Moueix and the Dominus team headed by Tod Mostero have done a fabulous job with these wines. Mostero describes 2010 as a cold year, but with heat spikes in late August, September and October, which resulted in the loss of virtually all of the Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. In 2010, the harvest started on October 4 and stretched all the way to October 23, much later than in 2009. The 2010s dark, tannic wines that are likely to require quite a bit of patience. According to Mostero, 2009 was a year of even temperatures, with no heat spikes or other traumatic events. The harvest took place between October 5 and 12.
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The 2010 and 2009 Dominus Estate wines are quite different from each other, but probably less so than the original raw materials would have suggested. According to winemaker Tod Mostero, production in 2010 was extremely low owing to a very severe selection, with the quantity of flagship wine the lowest to date, and less than half that of 2009. "We had sharp heat spikes on August 24, September 2 and September 28, followed by three hot days from October 12 through 14," said Mostero, "and we practically lost our cabernet franc. The cabernet sauvignon grapes didn't really soften until the end. The 2010s are tannic and deeply colored, and for the flagship wine we selected out some of the more muscular lots. A lot of fruit that normally goes into Dominus went into our Napanook wine instead." The estate's 2009 is a much more spherical wine in comparison, noted Mostero. "It offers lovely balance and nuance, and no one element stands out today."
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