Some may have figured it out...I have a Dominus problem... Part of a big lot of '84, '85, '86, '87 I bought from WB. Fill well into the neck...Mature deep red/purple in color. Upon opening an intense nose of just sawed, oak saw dust, minutes later the sharp fragrance of the dust was muted, wet, mushroom, a complete reversal in mere minutes. At 15 minutes we are moving into an iodine stage, supported by sweet tobacco and cedar. Not intended to draw an overreaction, but at this point a beautiful merlot note surfaced and the wine immediately reminded me of '82 Pichon Lalande and I haven't had that wine in 3 years or so, but it was startling, if fleeting. On the palate, the wine is big, it's polished, yet it has that soft grace of merlot that the aformetioned PL is so beautiful for. Ripe red cherries tingle the tongue, baked red fruits intermingle with black earth, pungent hung game, emerge at two hours open. Showing a full long finish that still shows well melded tannins. Even more time shows ginger, and as I type this, and I am baffled by it, the wine shows younger than at any previous point, taking on a cinnamon, candied nose with receeding bright fruit on the palate, and pronounced mouth puckering tannins. Hot damn I have 3 more out of this same lot... A facinating wine, though I would characterize it as one that is just very, very good, but not incredibly good, but incredibly interesting. Maybe even confusing... , yes confusing works well. The wine is plenty fruited, but a purer deeper core of fruit, coupled with the overwhelming magic show would have made the wine near perfect, maybe next time. 95+ pts. Drink now though 2020. Unfortunatley a wine that could never be truly appreciated at a verticle tasting. Finally another '85 that lives up to the hype of the vintage.
Damn, it's empty, I am bummed...