2002 Le Dome
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Tasting notes
Muddy crimson. Sweet and polished, even if without an enormous amount of personality. Easy and round. (JR)
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Red-ruby. Captivating aromas of red berries, flowers, truffle and nutty oak. Deep, sappy redcurrant, plum and leather flavors offer lovely sweetness and a firm edge of acidity. Finishes long, with complex flavors of redcurrant, plum, smoke, gravel and leather. Today I prefer this to the 2003 for its sweetness and freshness of fruit.
Bright ruby-red. Aromas of black fruits, minerals and camphor. Fat, silky and concentrated in the mouth; an enticing, sappy fruit bomb of a wine, with more early sweetness but perhaps less breadth than the young 2003. Ripe acids give shape to the fruit. Finishes long and firmly tannic. This, too, contains about 75% cabernet sauvignon. Very interesting wine.
About the producer
The man behind highly regarded Saint-Émilion wine Le Dôme is a Nigerian-born Brit who sold his engineering firm in 1992 to move to Cahors and restore a pile of ruins. After meeting a local vineyard owner at a dinner party, he ended up selling his production to Oddbins and was caught by the wine bug.