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  • 2010
  • 750ml
  • USA
  • California
  • North Coast
  • Napa Valley
  • Bordeaux Red Blend
  • Red
  • OWC, 100 Points
  • EE4699
  • EE4710
Lot 176

2010 Dominus Estate Napa Valley - 750ml - 12 bottle(s)

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This lot is comprised of 12 bottle(s) of 2010 Dominus Estate Napa Valley - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $3900 - $5500 with BUY IT NOW PRICE of $4700. The wine in this lot comes from the collection 11477.

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This Toronto based consignor has been collecting over 40 years. He acquired all of his wine directly from the LCBO and most were OWCs. The bottles have been meticulously stored in perfect climate controlled conditions prior to coming to Iron Gate.
The wine in this lot has a score of 100 from Robert Parker and the following tasting note -Composed of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot, the stunning, full-bodied 2010 Dominus boasts an exceptional perfume of hoisin sauce, licorice, underbrush, forest floor, plums, black currants and jammy cherries intertwined with hints of cedar, baking spices and oak. Full-bodied and voluptuously textured, the 2010 is on a slightly faster evolutionary track than the 2009 (somewhat of an anomaly for these two vintages). This exquisite as well as prodigious 2010 can be drunk young, but it should age effortlessly for 20-25 years. Bravo! Looking at the harvest dates for the 2009 through 2012 Napanook and Dominus reveals that none of these were early, very warm years, such as 2013 is promising to be in northern California. For example, in 2009 the harvest took place between October 5 and 12