MF/Uncorked:
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> Well, it's certainly my mistake, as I thought I'd tried a '94
> Napanook,
> and the Napanook wasn't started till '96- thinking back, I guess I was
> thinking of Joseph Phelps Napa CS. I think of Napanook to Dominus as
> Phelps Napa to Insignia, or Montelena Napa to Montelena Estate.
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> In general I'm not used to hearing Dominus's flagship wine referred > to
> as Dominus Napanook (though the vineyard is on the label on at least
> some bottles), certainly not since Dominus started bottling the
> Napanook line. My point is that a reader might run across a bottle of > a
> more recent vintage of Napanook and think "hey, there's the wine that
> beat out Montelena Estate and Mondavi PR, even though it's less than > half the price"
DaleW and others: It sounds like this has been a point of confusion for the winery, so thanks for clarifying! I contacted Dominus Estate via e-mail about this and received the following reply:
"Dominus is the only wine we produced prior to 1996. The Dominus labels say "Napanook Vineyard" across to reflect that the wine is from grapes grown on the Napanook Vineyard. (There is a lot of confusion on this point.)
Our Napanook wine label looks completely different from the Dominus label.
Thank you for contacting us."