Perched on a rocky knoll in Oakville’s eastern benchland, St. Eden rests on a unique iron-rich volcanic knoll gently sloping into deep alluvial wash. Sourced from the legendary Beckstoffer-owned site, Dana Estates’ St. Eden Cabernet Sauvignon routinely showcases an architectural synthesis: the plush, opulent fruit profile classic to Oakville benchlands interwoven with a stern, volcanic mineral drive.
...Dana Estate is owned by South Korean winelover, Mr. Hi Sang Lee, who first fell in love with wine more than 40 years ago, when he lived in New York City. In the early 1990s he founded Nara Cellar, a wine importing business in South Korea. In 2006 he opened Podo Plaza, a cutting edge food and wine center in Seoul that contains a wine bar, retail store, wine academy (WSET) and cooking school (Japanese Culinary Institute).
Through his import b...
Dana Estates produces three single vineyards wines, from sites that are dramatically different from one another. Each vineyard is farmed organically at low yields to allow the unique qualities of each site to be expressed in the bottle. Multiple passes through the vineyards are made during harvest, and only the purest expressions of fruit and most balanced lots make it into Dana wines. Depending on the character of each lot, blocks are fermen...
The winemaking practices are based on site-oriented wine production where philosophy is adapted from Burgundy and where organic farming plays a critical part.
"Organic farming allows the vineyard to truly express itself and not input upon input from a man. The site is irrigated minimally and even dry farming is taking place when possible to highlight the expression of both vintage and vineyard. In winemaking, the fermentation takes place in...
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