The 1987 Savigny-Les-Beaune Les Dominaudes should have shown better, but I suspect it is going through a tough, tannic, closed stage, as wines from this vineyard have a tendency to do. There is good acidity, excellent color, and an impression of weight and ripeness on the palate, but the wine was impenetrable and difficult to assess. I am sure the wine is better than I have rated it, but I would not want to open a bottle until 1992-1993; it should keep for at least 10 to 12 years. This old-line, traditional negociant believes in making deeply colored, robust, muscular wines that age extremely well.

The Savigny-Les-Beaune Les Dominaudes is a powerful, intense, full-bodied, tannic wine loaded with black cherry fruit. It will drink well for the next decade.

The Savigny La Dominode is robust and beefy and a solid, rather heavy, rustic sort of wine that should be at its best in 1990. This wine was not that impressive, but was for the most part acceptable, even though it did seem to be made in an old, heavy style.