| Dominus Estate | |
| Location | Yountville, California, USA |
|---|---|
| Appellation | Napa Valley AVA |
| Formerly | Napanook Vineyards |
| Founded | 1836 |
| first Vintage | 1983 |
| Key people | Christian Moueix |
| Known for | Dominus Napanook |
| Website | www.dominusestate.com/ |
Dominus Estate, formerly Napanook Vineyards, is a California wine estate producing Bordeaux style blends, owned by Christian Moueix. Yountville is an incorporated town in Napa County, California, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An appellation is a Geographical indication used to identify where the Grapes for a Wine were grown Napa Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in Napa County, California, USA. Vintage, in Wine -making is the process of picking Grapes and creating the finished product A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages California wine is Wine made in the US state of California. Nearly three-quarters the size of France, California accounts for nearly 90 A Bordeaux wine is any Wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. Christian Moueix is a French Winemaker and the president of the Négociant house Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix in Libourne The winery is located in Yountville within the Napa Valley AVA. A winery is a building or property that produces Wine, or a business involved in the production of wine such as a wine company. Yountville is an incorporated town in Napa County, California, United States. Napa Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in Napa County, California, USA.
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History
George Yount, the founder of Yountville, planted in 1836 the first vines of the valley on the location of Napanook vineyard. In 1850 the property was bought by Charles Hopper, and owners since include Hugh La Rue, a pioneer in the use of rootstock and John Daniel Jr. A rootstock is a Plant, and sometimes just the Stump, which already has an established healthy root system, used for Grafting a cutting or , the owner of Inglenook Winery who bought the estate in 1946. The Inglenook Winery produced estate bottled wines in Rutherford California in the Napa Valley. [1]
Following Daniel's death in 1970, Napanook passed to his daughters Robin Lail and Marcia Smith who in 1982 began a partnership with Christian Moueix, acting on a recommendation by Robert Mondavi to establish production in Napa Valley. Robert Gerald Mondavi ( June 18, 1913 – May 16, 2008) was a leading American Vineyard operator whose technical improvements [1][2] Moueix, also in charge of production at Château Pétrus and president of Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix, became the sole owner of Dominus Estate when Lail and Smith sold their shares in 1995. Pétrus is a red Bordeaux wine of the Pomerol appellation made almost entirely from the Merlot Grape. Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix, or JP Moueix, is a Bordeaux Négociant house founded by Jean-Pierre Moueix in 1937 situated on the Quai [2] Napanook, the estate's second wine, was first released in 1996. Second wine (or second label; in French Second vin) is a term commonly associated with Bordeaux wine to refer to a second label wine made from
With the previous thirteen vintages crushed and aged at the nearby facility Rombauer Winery,[1] a new winery was constructed by the Swiss architects Jaques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in 1996, a USD$5 million, 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m²) structure. Herzog & de Meuron Architekten BSA/SIA/ETH ( HdeM) is a Swiss Architecture firm founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The square foot is an Imperial unit / US customary unit (non- SI non- metric) of Area, used mainly in the United States M^2 redirects here For other uses see M². CM2 redirects here [2] The architects' first U. S. project, it was designed to provide protection from scorching heat by day and the cold at night. [3]
Production
From an estate of 124 acres (50 ha), the vineyard area extends 108 acres (44 ha) in 14 blocks, with some presence of phylloxera-resistant St. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, This article is about the grape phylloxera For the Genus, see Phylloxera (genus. George rootstock from the Inglenook period, the grape varieties are 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot, 5% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc. Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the world's most widely recognized red Wine grape varieties. Petit verdot is a variety of red Wine Grape, principally used in classic Bordeaux blends Merlot ('MERL-oh' in British English mer-LOH in American English and standard French is a red Wine Grape that is used as both a blending grape and for Cabernet Franc is one of the major varieties of red Wine Grape in Bordeaux [2]
The annual production is 70,000 to 100,000 bottles (6,000 to 8,000 cases), half of which is bottled as Dominus and the remainder as Napanook. [4]
References
- ^ a b c Prial, Frank J. The New York Times (March 9, 1988). Wine Talk.
- ^ a b c d Murphy, Linda San Francisco Chronicle (February 3, 2005). MoueiX Files.
- ^ Maisons Marques & Domaines Usa Inc. . The Architecture of Dominus.
- ^ Apstein, Michael, Wine Review Online (September 27, 2005). A Conversation with Christian Moueix, Part II: Dominus Estate.
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