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2015 Dominus

Wine Details
Producer

Dominus

Place of Origin

United States

Yountville

Napa

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Petit Verdot, 5% Cabernet Franc

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Drinking Window

2022 - 2045

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Winemaker Tod Mostero describes 2014 as a drought year with consistently warm temperatures for the entire year, but no heat spikes. Mostero is among the producers who spoke of the plants getting greener and more vibrant at the end of the season, after the August earthquake changed the hydrology of the soils and gave them water as dry springs and streams began to flow. I would imagine that the sudden presence of water would be especially notice at sites like Dominus that dry farm. Harvest started on September 2 and ran through the 30th. Two thousand fifteen, on the other hand, saw numerous heat spikes, including three heat events during harvest. Picking started on September 2 (the same as 2014), but all the fruit was in by the 16th, a much more condensed harvest period of just two weeks compared to 4 weeks in 2014. As for the wines, they are terrific. The 2014s have developed beautifully over the last year. Today, the differences between the two 2015s are not that marked, which can happen in unusually warm vintages.