1999 Napanook

Wine Details
Producer

Dominus

Place of Origin

United States

Yountville

Napa

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Bordeaux Blend

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Christian Moueix, whose late-winter visit to Dominus coincided with my own tour of the North Coast, told me that 1999 and 2000 both featured drawn-out periods of flowering. The '99, he says, is the more structured of the two vintages, with smaller berries and more tannins having produced a more austere wine. The 2000, in comparison, is a fruitier style, with a "normal" skin-to-juice ratio.

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Enologist Boris Champy describes 1998 as a moderately ripe year in which the terroir doesn't really express itself. Nineteen ninety-nine was similarly cool but was also dryer, he noted. "We did a lot of crop-thinning and there were also small berries in '99, with the result that we had very low yields and a good concentration of tannins. Acids were actually higher than those of the previous year." The 2000 growing season was perfect "on paper," he told me, although a hot spell in early June followed by cooler weather extended the flowering and required crop-thinning to even out fruit ripeness.