Dana - Helms Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 (750ml) Italy

Dana - Helms Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 (750ml) ItalyLocated adjacent to the historic DANA winery at the base of the Mayacamas Mountains, Helms Vineyard is an 8 acre site on the western side of the Rutherford AVA. The sites deep soils include abundant riverbed gravel with decomposed remnants of an ancient seabed. Fruit from this site is richly perfumed, with beautiful plummy fruit and heady aromatics. Dusty cocoa powder tannins have a natural softness and viscosity that lend elegant volume to the wines.

Les Dauphins continues to uphold this legacy of excitement and creativity with their fabulous portfolio of excellent red

inviting you to savor each mouthwatering sip

“Another museum release Riesling from the excellent Contours block of the Pewsey Vale vineyard

There's a freshness to the flavors and an elegance to the polished tannins

and integration

Biodynamically Farmed

but which are now almost about to disappear

and beeswax

forest floor and bark

made using the oldest known technique for creating sparkling wine

retaining as many whole berries as possible—a process that allows for a portion of semi-carbonic maceration to lift the wine’s aromatic finesse

brothers Pico and Vitaliano Maccario own 70 contiguous hectares