Dana - Hershey Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 (750ml)

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Producer	Dana
Country	United States
Region	California
Subregion	Howell Mountain
Varietal	Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage	2014
Sku	131070
Size	750ml

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Hershey Vineyard is DANA’s largest and most diverse vineyard site, planted to both red and white grapes. This 35-acre vineyard perches 1800 feet above sea level in the Howell Mountain AVA, where the soils include varying combinations of fractured bedrock, gravel, compressed ash boulders, clay, and white dust. The site’s diversity requires block-specific farming; pick dates are typically four weeks apart for red grapes. Fermented in single barrels to preserve each lot’s unique personality, Hershey Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon offers elegant, linear structure with intriguing savory and mineral notes, and a layered complexity especially beloved by sommeliers.

Critical Acclaim

99 points James Suckling

Entrancing aromas of orange peel, sweet tobacco, mushrooms, clay, espresso chocolate and currants follow through to a medium to full body that builds on the finish with wonderful blackberry, wet-earth and fresh mushroom character. Lasts for minutes. Exuberant and decadent at the same time. More tamed than in the past. Challenging. Very unique. Better in 2022. Exciting to taste. Best Hershey ever? (01/2017)

96 points Vinous

The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Hershey Vineyard is in a fine place for drinking today. Hints of espresso, spice, lavender, mocha and dried herbs give the 2014 lovely aromatic presence to match its mid-weight personality. There is a bit of firmness in the tannins, but that is the signature of the year. The linear intensity here is impressive. (AG, 01/2025)

95 points Jeb Dunnuck

The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Hershey Vineyard from a site on Howell Mountain has that unmistakable herbal, wild character of this appellation front and center. Full-bodied, impressively textured, with dark, earthy aromas of black fruits, chocolate, damp earth, and tobacco, it too has another 2+ decades of prime drinking ahead of it. (01/2019)

95+ points Wine Advocate

The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Hershey Vineyard comes from a Howell Mountain vineyard at an 1,800-foot elevation. The classic Howell Mountain Cabernet characteristics of rich mulberry and blackberry fruit allied to graphite and earth are all present in this 100% Cabernet Sauvignon that spent 26 months in French oak of which 93% was new. Low-acid, plump, fleshy and sexy, this is a gorgeous wine, but relatively limited with only 280 cases produced. (RP, 10/2016)