2022 Dana Estates Vaso Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, USA
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2022 Dana Estates Vaso Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $89.46 and the average is $96.14. Our slash is $100.00.
Dana Estates Vaso 2022
2022 Dana Estates Vaso Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, USA
The sister Cabernet, labeled Napa Valley.
Dana Estates stands in Rutherford at the foot of the Mayacamas, in the stone winery H.W. Helms raised in 1883.
Hi Sang Lee brought that property back in 2005. The name is a Sanskrit word for generosity, and the lotus on this bottle is the flower the house uses for the life of the vine.
Vaso is the sister Cabernet, labeled 2022 Napa Valley, set beside the single-vineyard bottles the estate keeps for its members.
Maura Johnson is Director of Winemaking. The estate's own account of the cellar is that each site is handled for what it is, and this bottle carries the Napa Valley name rather than one vineyard.
When the sister Cabernet from this Rutherford house is the bottle on the table, what are you waiting for?
"This is the Cabernet with the lotus on the label."
A stone winery at the foot of the Mayacamas
The Rutherford property is the old Helms site, stone walls at the base of the mountain, with the estate vineyard on the bench beside the winery.
Helms, Lotus, Hershey, and Montagna are the single-vineyard Cabernets. Onda is the other sister label. Vaso is the bottle with this name on the glass.
Napa Valley on the label
The label reads 2022, Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon.
That appellation is the one printed under the lotus. The winery sits in Rutherford. The name on this bottle is Napa Valley.
Beside the single-vineyard bottles
The estate farms its own sites in Rutherford, in Crystal Springs, on Howell Mountain, and on Pritchard Hill.
Those sites have their own bottles. Vaso stays the Napa Valley Cabernet with the lotus.
Ribeye, and venison
Beef and venison are the plates listed for this Cabernet. A ribeye gives the wine a browned crust and some fat. Venison is the leaner cut, and a dark berry sauce keeps the plate in the same register.
Pan-seared ribeye
A thick ribeye with a deep brown crust.
Why it works: The Cabernet meets the crust and the fat. Beef is the plate listed beside this wine.
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Venison loin
Sliced venison loin with a blackberry sauce.
Why it works: Venison is leaner than the ribeye. The dark berry sauce stays in the same register as the wine.
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Dana Estates Vaso, the 2022 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
This bottle is $100.
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