2017, Dominus, NAPA VALLEYBordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot. There was about 50% of a normal crop this year for the 2017 Dominus, due to strict selection. Grapes were harvested from September 21 to October 3 and the wine was bottled in June 2019. This year the blend is 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot, aged in 40% new French oak barrels. Very deep purple black in colour, it sashays nonchalantly out of the glass with

a quarter and a quarter

plush cranberry and wild strawberry intermingling with cassis and violet

cloves and sandalwood

It will repay a decade in bottle and then last several more

Will age well

He also has a new vineyard property near Fiesole

fresh and equally floral-suffused nose offers up a mix of red and dark currant tinged with crushed fennel

Perfumed already

very pure with red cherries and crushed strawberry fruit

the 2021 Calon-Ségur wafts from the glass with aromas of rose petals

The texture is just gorgeous

has confidence and character and just so much class