THE BEST NAPA CABERNET 2008 – DANA LOTUS VINEYARD CABERNET SAUVIGNON
By Fine Wine magazines
The challenging vintage of 2008 set the Napa vintners in position where understanding of the terroir factors of their vineyard site proved to be critical. Only by understanding the terroir of each plot of vines, the wine producer was able to make the necessary decisions in the vineyards on supporting the vines during their growth cycle and helpi...
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 bus...
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 c...
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