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Le Dome 2018
HED54282
75 cl
14.5%
Regular price
£145.00
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£130.00
10% off
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Le Dôme has been made with majority (~80%) Cabernet Franc long before it was cool, and remains the biggest expression of Cabernet Franc in Bordeaux. With a reputation for producing a wine that is wild, opulent and fragrant as well as being rich, concentrated and lively. It’s a wine that drinks well after 3-4 years but stays alive for decades. The 2018 is beautifully perfumed, with rich black fruit character.
94 Vinous
The 2018 Le Dôme remains very tight and backward on the nose. Left to open for several hours, it manifests blackberry, briar and iris, then mint and menthol aromas join the chorus line. But it is all very tightly packed at the moment. The palate is medium-bodied with a ripe entry, quite plush and dense, touches of graphite infusing the black fruit and then finally opening up toward a more expressive finish. As I mentioned before, this is a Le Dôme that demands bottle age – several years, preferably.Neal Martin21st March 2021
93 Jane Anson
Back to a richer more solid expression of the wine after the lighter-styled 2017. Here you get plenty of opulence straight of the back, with velvet textured tannins, grilled cocoa bean, pot pourri, incense, dried rose petals, charcoal and kirsch. I struggled a little to find the freshness in this vintage, although the shot of mint leaf and eucalyptus on the finish suggests that it will reward longer in bottle. Neil Whyte winemaker, Jonathan Maltus owner. 80% new oak for ageing, malolactic in new oak.Jane Anson15th January 2025
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