Dana Cabernet Sauvignon Hershey Vineyard 2013

Dana Cabernet Sauvignon Hershey Vineyard 2013Two wines that I did not see from bottle have turned out to be close to perfection. The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Hershey Vineyard has unbelievable richness, a profound opaque purple color and enormous notes of lead pencil shavings intermixed with blackberry liqueur, white flowers and crushed rock. The wine is full bodied and dense with moderately high tannin, but the tannin is integrated and silky.

There is almost painful intensity to the super-sleek big-bodied flavors that possess a positively gorgeous mouthfeel due to a mid-palate that brims with sappy dry extract that coats the mouth on the hugely long and impeccably well-balanced finale

Like several wines in the range there is an intense floral character to the highly restrained nose that combines notes of red cherry

There is a sleek and lacy mouth feel to the refined middle weight flavors that exude a fine bead of minerality on the balanced

the sauvage and a combination of super-fresh red and dark currant scents

Textbook Suchots

but the last two times I have had it

This is austere but not really rustic and should amply reward mid to long-term cellaring

lavender and sandalwood hints

The élevage lasted 16 months and was mostly in oval Stockinger 2

There is excellent energy and precision to the dusty

Like the Reignots this is closed and brooding at present though aggressive swirling grudgingly liberates cool

a touch of beef blood and iron and something floral and refined