2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Helms Vineyards
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The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Helms Vineyard offers brilliant freshness and elegance, with a complex, nuanced style in its bluer fruits, California bay leaf, violet, and damp earth aromas and flavors. It’s full-bodied and certainly has fruit galore, yet it’s the balance, finesse, and layered texture that set it apart. Drink this brilliant bottle of Napa Cabernet over the coming two decades or more.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate
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The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Helms Vineyard is bright, focused and wonderfully nuanced in the glass. Medium in body, with silky tannins, the 2014 will drink well with minimal cellaring. It is fascinating to see how well the 2014 has come together over the last year. The flavors are vibrant – as they always have been – but the mid-palate has filled out very nicely. Succulent red cherry, plum, rose petal and spice notes lead into the nuanced, super-expressive finish.
The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Helms Vineyard is bright, focused and wonderfully nuanced in the glass. Medium in body, with silky tannins, the 2014 will drink well with minimal cellaring. It is fascinating to see how well the 2014 has come together over the last year. The flavors are vibrant as they always have been but the mid-palate has filled out very nicely. Succulent red cherry, plum, rose petal and spice notes lead into the nuanced, super-expressive finish.
Incredible aromas of violets and other flowers, not to mention blackcurrants and incense. Medium to full body and firm and polished tannins. Seductive. Goes on for minutes. Extremely long. Shows wonderful potential. Try it in 2022.
About the producer
Located on the Rutherford bench, Dana Estates is a small Napa estate focused on producing fine, single-site Cabernet Sauvignon. The concentrated wines are some of the region’s most sought-after, regularly earning top ratings from critics – with 19 100-point scores to date.