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Château Le Dome
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2023
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, espresso, sandalwood, smoke, black plums, and black cherries create the perfume. The palate offers a rich layer of salty black cherries, plums, licorice, and chocolate. Equally lush, and racy, this is going to be even better with a few years of aging. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Franc with 20% Merlot, 14.1% ABV. The harvest took place September 20 - October 2. Drink from 2028-2052. 95-97 Pts. 1,813 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Dark in color, the wine offers black fruits, flowers, licorice, smoke, espresso, and cocoa aromatics. On the palate, the wine is deep, dark, fresh, long, and packed with the essence of minerality. The tannins are long, and polished, leaving you with mint leaves, salt, chewy-cherries, spices, herbs, and lingering plummy notes. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot, 15.1% ABV. The harvest took place September 14 - October 28. The yields were 30 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2027-2050. 96-98 Pts. 3,060 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2022
Château Le Dôme (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Intense, concentrated, rich, and full-bodied, once past the oaky overtones, you find black, with dark red berries, flowers, licorice, smoke, and chocolate in the perfume. Lush, ripe, and rich, the palate is loaded with sweet and red black pit fruits and the added complexity of minerality that shows on the backend of the finish, just before you find the refreshing touch of mint. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot. Drink from 2027-2055. 337 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025 |
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2021
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Ocean breezes, cherries, and cocoa pop in the bouquet. On the palate, the wine is supple, vibrant, fresh and salty, which helps you focus on its savory, sweet, tart, bright, salty, minty characteristics. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Franc with 20% Merlot, including fruit normally placed into Les Asteries, which was not produced this year. 2021 is the first vintage produced in their new, show-piece cellars. Drink from 2026-2045. 667 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Flowers, licorice, black cherry, smoke, spice and fresh, leafy herbs open the nose. On the palate, the wine is fresh, supple, soft and polished, with silky tannins and a spicy, plum and deep cherry finish that delivers just a dab of vanilla and crushed rock coming in on the endnote. The wine is a blend of 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot, which includes fruit normally placed into Les Asteries, 13.4 ABV, pH 3.71. Yields were low at 28 hectoliters per hectare. Harvest took place October 6-14. 2021 is the first vintage produced in their new cellars. Drink from 2025-2042. 93-95 2,293 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Quite floral in nature, this is an elegant, complex wine loaded with sweet, ripe, red pit fruits, incense, crushed rocks, and leafy essences at the core of the nose and palate. The wine is vibrant, polished, refined and long, with purity, lift and richness in the seductive wave of salt, tinged cherries in the lingering endnote. Drink from 2025-2050. 1,636 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Flowers, incense, crushed stone, smoke, thyme and red pit fruit aromas get the wine started in the right direction. Full-bodied, fresh, lively, rich, silky and mineral driven, there is purity, lift and richness, leaving you with a gorgeous, elegant, seductive wave of cherries in the end note that lingers long after the wine has left the glass. 96-98 Pts 3,749 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, herbs, truffle, chalk, espresso, red and black pit fruit with a touch of cedar and green, forest leaves are found with ease on the nose. On the palate, the wine is concentrated, dense and intense, with layers of ripe, showy, polished, fruits that come in richly-textured waves blended with herbs, spicebox, toasty oak and black cherries. There is ample lift, weight, concentration and freshness here that accompany the wealth of fruit to keep you interested. Drink from 2027-2049. 2,378 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Fresh and stony, with good purity to the plums, cherries and blackberry, this wine offers additional complexities of spice box, crushed rock, licorice, mint and espresso. There is ample lift, weight, concentration and freshness, along with a wealth of fruit to keep you interested. 95-97 Pts 3,829 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Dark in color, the wine balances power with intensity. You find layers of richness, fruit, crushed rocks, stone, burnt caramel, espresso, ripe, lush plums, thyme and spice in every sniff, swallow and sip. The wine fills your palate while offering balance, complexity and a long, fruit-filled finish. Created from 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot, 14.7% ABV. 3,752 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Dark in color, intensive aromas of vanilla, blackberry, five spice, plum, spring flowers and jam bring you to a full-bodied, polished, refined wine. Slightly austere but in a good way. There is length, complexity and uniqueness of character. Created from 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot, reaching 14.7% ABV, the harvest took place October 1-October 10. 95-97 Pts 4,755 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Intense in color with lush, polished textures, the wine pops with flowers, plums, herbs and black raspberries. Full bodied and concentrated, there is a freshness and a solid fruitiness right through to the finish. The wine was created from a blend of 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot. 6,213 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Inky dark in color, the wine pops with all the flowers, black raspberries, smoke, licorice, cherry and vanilla bean you'll need. Full bodied, powerful and concentrated, there is lushness to the textures, ripeness to the fruit and a salty, mineral character that really hangs on your palate. The wine has one of the largest percentages of Cabernet Franc in all of Bordeaux at 80% with the remainder coming from 20% Merlot. The wine reached 15% ABV with a pH of 3.81. Thomas Duclos is the new consultant at Le Dome and he's apparently kicked things up a notch. 7,146 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Chocolate-covered black raspberries, ripe, juicy, smoky plums, crushed stone and cherry liqueur really makes an excellent impression on your palate. There is length, purity and fat, supple textures to be savored. This wine was made from a blend of 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot reaching 13.8% ABV with a pH of 3.85. The harvest took place from October 2 to October 6. 4,888 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, black plum liqueur, caramel and spice on the nose, this wine is concentrated with ripe tannins, minerals and a fresh, fennel, cocoa and black cherry finish. The wine was made from a blend of 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot reaching 13% ABV with a pH of 3.71. 92-94 Pts 6,769 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
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2013
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With licorice, chocolate, plum and floral notes on the nose, the wine is fresh, spicy, medium bodied and plush with a soft chocolate, red plum and stone-driven finish. From 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot, the wine reached 12.9% ABV with a pH of 3.65. The yields were 26 hectoliters per hectare. 90-92 Pts 2,910 Views Tasted Apr 28, 2014 |
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2012
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With a lot of Cabernet Franc for the vintage at 80%, the remainder taken up by 20% Merlot, the wine reached 13% ABV with a pH of 3.72. Fresh flowers, black raspberries and espresso bean, polished, strong tannins and a fresh, black raspberry, structured, stern, mineral dominated finish. 92-94 Pts 4,046 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Inky in color and from a blend of 80% Cabernet Fran and 20% Merlot, the wine reached 13.10% ABV. With espresso bean, licorice, earth and black cherry, this wine is densely packed with tannin, black cherry liqueur, licorice and coffee. Structured to age, this will take time to come around. 92-94 Pts 6,508 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2012 |
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2010
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Le Dome 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot combined to produce what’s probably the wine with the highest percentage of Cabernet Franc from Bordeaux in the vintage. The wine reached reached 14.58% ABV with a pH 3.8. A deep purple color leads into a licorice, floral, oak, and spicy blackberry perfume, plush textures and a finish that offers oak, coco and black cherries. About 1,000 cases were produced of this unique St. Emilion. 92-94 Pts 9,021 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
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2009
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
2009 Le Dome is inky black. Produced from a whopping 80% cabernet franc, this unique wine offers licorice, fresh herbs, black raspberries, black cherry jam, coffee, espresso, and smoke aromas. Full bodied and filled with ripe fruit, this powerful wine ends with a long finish of blackberry, toasty oak, licorice, and mocha flavors. 92-94 Pts 8,063 Views Tasted Aug 28, 2010 |
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2008
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Château Le Dome is the top wine in the extensive catalogue of Jonathan Maltus, is an engaging bottling. With the highest level of cabernet franc used in Bordeaux, 75%, the wine has a definite personality not always easy to discern in barrel. From sandy, limestone soils and 100% new oak, this 750 case cuvee is the color of ink. This aromatically complex wine with coffee, spice, black and red fruits with BBQ and caramel notes has much to offer. Full bodied and concentrated, the wine finishes with strong flavors of boysenberry and fennel root. The 08 is the richest vintage yet for this winery, and also the most accessible one. 5,267 Views Tasted Jul 1, 2009 |
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2005
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
05 Le Dome Coffee, blackberry, juicy red plums, licorice and forest floor scents greeted your nose. With soft textures, this wine finishes with freshness, licorice, coca, plums and black cherries. Another 5 years will add a lot of roundness to this wine. 7,632 Views Tasted Feb 17, 2011This opens with fresh herbs, ripe red and black fruits, new oak and fennel. Medium bodied/full bodied, with silky textures and ample freshness to give it lift. The wine finishes with elegant ripe fruits. 5,584 Views Tasted Jun 12, 2008 |
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2002
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The nose expresses berries, coffee. herbs and new wood scents. Some green was noted in the back of the mouth in the smooth, textured finish. 5,361 Views Tasted Jun 12, 2008 |
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2001
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With its herbal aromas and blasts of red and black fruit, the wine was definitely open for business. Closer to medium bodied than full bodied, with soft textures, there is no reason to wait for this to develop further. 4,526 Views Tasted Jun 12, 2008 |
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2000
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Full-bodied, rich, and intense, the wine is lushly textured with notes of licorice, flowers, crushed rocks, tobacco, thyme, dried flowers, espresso, and dark red berries. Still youthful, this can benefit from a few more years in the cellar. 3,122 Views Tasted Sep 30, 2021Soft, sweet, silky, spicy berries find their way to your palate, This full boded wine ends with a blend of black and red fruits, spice, fresh herbs,and licorice 5,998 Views Tasted Feb 17, 2011Blackberry, stone, smoke, licorice and grassy herbs are easy to find. With 3-4 hours of air, the wine softened and gained in compexity, ending in an anise, herb and dark berry finsh. 5,303 Views Tasted Jul 4, 2010 |
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1998
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Le Dome Cigar box, caramel, licorice, plum and chocolate aromas are a pleasure to spend time with. Medium to full boded, this silky, elegant wine end with a sweet, chocolate covered, black cherry finish. 5,242 Views Tasted Feb 17, 2011 |
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1996
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Charcoal, smoke, cassis scents in the nose. This medium bodied wine ends with herbs and tart black cherries. This is probably past its prime and is on the downside of life. This is the debut vintage for this wine. Subsequent vintages are better wines. 4,955 Views Tasted Feb 17, 20111996 was the debut vintage for Le Dome. This was lacking the more elegant, richer, polished style that Maltus is producing at the property today. 3,973 Views Tasted Jun 12, 2008 |
