2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Lotus Vineyards
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The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Lotus Vineyard is a heady, exuberant wine. Succulent black cherry, plum, blood orange, sweet spice, menthol and espresso build beautifully in the glass, framed by soft, silky contours that add to the wine's racy, open-knit personality. This has come along so well.
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My favorite of the 2014s was the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Lotus Vineyard. This site lies at the base of Howell Mountain and is a steep, hillside vineyard. Straight-up awesome notes of red and black fruits, dried flowers, spice, and lead pencil shavings all flow to a full-bodied, powerful 2014 that has no hard edges, perfect balance between its fruit, tannins, and acidity, and a finish that won’t quit. It’s up with the crème de la crème of the vintage and will cruise for 20-25 years or more.
Cherry blossom, orange peel, currants and peaches. A kaleidoscope of fruits. So perfumed with heaps of rose petals. Full and powerful yet finely tuned and polished. Finish of mushrooms and dark chocolate. So expressive.
The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Lotus Vineyard is truly one of the profound wines of the vintage. Aged 24 months in 90% new French oak, it is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from their most precocious and earliest-to-ripen Cabernet site. Dense blue/purple, as are the other wines, it separates itself with its extraordinarily flowery, blueberry and blackberry-scented aromatics. The wine is dense and multidimensional, full-bodied and opulent, with low acidity and fabulous silky, pure fruit. This wine is best drunk over the next two decades. Production of the Lotus single-vineyard is the smallest, at 250 cases. Oct 2016, www.robertparker.com
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.