Dominus Estate

My favorite vineyard love story is the one Christian Moueix told me maybe twenty years ago. In his 20s, having recently graduated from UC Davis in the late 1960s/early 70s, the nearby region of Napa Valley caught his eye. This was back when Napa was a one-horse town, and Yountville wished it had a horse. The son of Bordeaux’s legendary Jean-Pierre Moueix and set to take over the family’s globally renowned merchant business as well as the management of a collection of iconic, family-owned vineyards, including Petrus (which wasn’t nearly as famous then as it is now, largely thanks to Christian), Christian’s passion for this “New World” frontier came weighted under watchful eyes. Then Christian fell head over heels for an unassuming, historic piece of land in Yountville.