R & B Wines - Wine Price
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US Wines
CALIFORNIAN Red
- Listed by DOMAINE
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BERINGER
A TOP Californian estate making
classic Napa wines. Excellent body and structure - a great quality/value
wine! |
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18 |
75cl
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Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve
RP -
The final blend for the 2004
Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve has turned out fabulously. The
wine’s dense purple colour is accompanied by a rich, sumptuous bouquet
of crème de cassis, lead pencil shavings, chocolate, toast, and spice
box. It possesses fabulous fruit, low acidity, a rich, full-bodied
mouthfeel, and a long, pure finish. This cuvee remains one of the
most underrated great Cabernet Sauvignons of Napa. |
2004 |
£64.00 |
RP95
2007-32 |
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DOMINUS
A TOP estate making some of the
best Cabernet Sauvignon wine in California.
Owned by J-P Moueix of Chateau PETRUS fame. |
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48 |
75cl
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Dominus Napanook
2nd Wine of Dominus
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The second wine (3,100
cases), the 2003 Napanook, is a blend of 91% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4%
Cabernet Franc, and 5% Petit Verdot and Malbec. It offers a dark
plum/garnet colour as well as an evolved but intriguing nose of cedar,
spice box, high quality cigar smoke, sweet currants, incense, red
cherries, plums, and black currants. Complex with excellent
concentration, beautiful balance, and sweet tannin, it can be drunk now
or cellared for another 10-15 years. |
2003 |
£28.00 |
RP90
2005-20 |
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40 |
75cl
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Dominus Napanook
2nd Wine of Dominus
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The 2002 Napanook (2,400
cases from a blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Cabernet Franc, 11%
Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot, and 1% Malbec) is more structured and tannic
than the 2003, but also deeper coloured with additional notes of plum
liqueur, black currants, underbrush, cedar, and liquorice. Full-bodied,
rich, and powerful. |
2002 |
£32.00 |
RP92
2006-21 |
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69
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75cl
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Dominus
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The 2005 Dominus
continues to strut its stuff, tasting like a Napa hybrid blend of a
St.-Emilion and Pomerol. Its dark ruby/purple-tinged colour is followed
by notions of cedarwood, spice box, roasted herbs, sweet black cherry
and cassis fruit, liquorice, and truffles. Full-bodied with excellent
fruit intensity, complex aromatics, supple tannins, and a long finish,
this 7,000-case blend of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc, and
3% Petit Verdot should drink well for two decades or more. |
2005 |
£74.00 |
RP96
2008-28 |
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30
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75cl
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Dominus
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The 2003 Dominus has turned
out even better than I thought from barrel. There are 4,800 cases of
this 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Petit Verdot
blend. A big, sweet nose of roasted coffee, Provencal herbs, black
currants, cherry jam, plums, allspice, and forest floor is followed by a
spicy, rich, full-bodied, fragrant, intense wine. The tannins are
sweet, but noticeable in this beautifully complex, strikingly aromatic
2003. It has much more similarity to a great Bordeaux than anything
from Napa Valley. |
2003 |
£72.00 |
RP95
2007-25 |
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35
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75cl
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Dominus
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Dominus is a large vineyard,
and they have the ability to make a strict selection. The 2002
Dominus gets my nod as the greatest example of this cuvee since the 1991
and 1994. There are 4,500 cases of this 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet
Franc, 4% Petit Verdot, and 3% Merlot blend fashioned from minuscule
yields ranging from 1.8 to 2.8 tons of fruit per acre. Christian Moueix
told me that the phenolic material was higher analytically in 2002, as
were the acids, which surprised everyone. The deep, saturated
purple-coloured 2002 boasts an extraordinary perfume of roasted coffee
intermixed with black currants, cherries, cocoa, cedar, cigar smoke, and
new saddle leather. A classic, full-bodied palate possesses great
structure, tremendous depth, loads of tannin, and a multilayered,
concentrated yet elegant finish. |
2002 |
£99.00 |
RP96
2008-30 |
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