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California Wine Atlas

Dominus Estate

Sub-AVA · Yountville

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Editorial profile

Dominus Estate is a Napa Valley winery near Yountville, built around the historic Napanook vineyard on the west side of the valley at the foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains — land first planted to vine in 1838 by George Yount and identified by Christian Moueix, who still guides the estate, in 1981. Dominus, the flagship, is described by the winery as a powerful, pure expression of the site, with polished tannins and structure meant to age. Napanook, the second wine, is bolder and more immediately drinkable, while Othello is grown on fine-grained silt and clay from early flows of the Napa River and made to be drunk earlier.

Facts read from dominusestate.com

What's on file

1983

founded

as stated by the producer

Address

2570 NAPANOOK RD

Varieties

Cabernet Sauvignon Blend

Where it's registered

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  • Principal2570 NAPANOOK RD, YOUNTVILLE

The ground it sits on

Sub-AVA · Yountville

6.5

pH, 1:1 water

17.6cm

, whole profile

134cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 35 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.5
4.0%
25.4%
available water
17.6cm
depth to restriction
134cm

Dominant

  • 18.1%
  • 14.0%
  • 12.3%
  • 11.2%
  • 9.3%

35 map units · soil described over 94.9% of the region’s area · 6.4% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 50% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Wines

  • Dominus

    flagship estate wine grown on the Napanook vineyard

  • Napanook

    second wine of the estate

  • Othello

    wine grown on fine-grained silt and clay from early flows of the Napa River

3 of 3 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.