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Wine Description
The Story
Out of the three Dana Estate owned vineyards, the Lotus vineyard located on St. Helena hillsides, stands at 1200 feet above sea level with a beautiful panoramic view of the Napa Valley floor.
This steep hillside vineyard is spread over the rocky, low-yielding soils with Western exposure. Thanks to the influence of the afternoon sun, the wines shows ripe and rich fruitiness while the three to twelve inches, fractured grey bedrock soil genera...
Wine Information
The 2011 Dana Estates Lotus Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon offers a fascinating look into a cool-climate vintage interpreted through one of Napa Valley’s most meticulously farmed sites. Perched above St. Helena, the Lotus Vineyard is carved into volcanic bedrock, producing wines of formidable structure and tightly wound energy. Dana Estates, founded by Hi Sang Lee with Philippe Melka as winemaker, has developed a reputation for crafting expressiv...
Vintage 2011
2011 was marked by a cooler-than-average growing season and a wet harvest. However, sites like Lotus, with rocky soils and excellent drainage, fared better than valley floor locations. The result is a wine of restraint and mineral complexity—a contrast to the riper vintages that bookend it. It is aging slowly and gracefully.