9 DANA Estate Wines Vs. Chateau Latour || What I Drank Yesterday

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Wine List:
2021 Dana Estates Hershey Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc Howell Mountain Napa
2020 Dana Estates Vaso Cabernet Sauvignon Napa
2019 Dana Estates Onda Cabernet Sauvignon Napa
2021 Dana Estates Onda Cabernet Sauvignon Napa
2022 Dana Estates Montagna Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
2021 Dana Estates Hershey Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
2021 Dana Estates Helms Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
2021 Dana Estates Lotus Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
2017 Dana Estates Lotus Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
2017 Chateau Latour Pauillac

Napa Valley produces some of the greatest examples of the Cabernet Sauvignon varietal and at the top end of the spectrum there are many choices but very few that have started out at the top like Dana Estate.

I remember my visit to Dana right after they opened the newly renovated winery that was formerly the Livingston Moffett estate. After touring the new winery, I remember thinking “WOW” they built an amazing facility to produce a few hundred cases of each of the single vineyard wine. Profit was not the initial goal, becoming one top wines in Napa Valley was and they spared no expense building this winery. They bought one of the top vineyard sites in Napa Valley, then hired one of the top winemakers to consult for the project Philippe Melka and spared no expense on everything. That is how you make a great wine from day one, it takes a huge commitment and the Chun family was ready to stay the course and they have never wavered.

The Chun family succeeded in making Dana Estate one of the best wines in Napa from the very first vintage, the 2005 was amazing but once Robert Parker Jr’s Wine Advocate rated the 2007 Dana Estate Lotus Vineyard (100 points) the rest was history. The demand for these wines now has moved the needle to where the new releases are just shy of $1000 a bottle!

Dana Estate is now considered to be among the top wines of Napa Valley and you can put it alongside any of the world’s great Cabernet Sauvignon, it can hang with the big boys of Bordeaux.