2014 | Dancing Hares Vineyard | Red

Description

Red Wine: 2014 | Dancing Hares Vineyard | Red

Along with dark, rich aromas of mocha, chocolate and marinated cherries.

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Producer: Dancing Hares Vineyard

Ratings: WA | 98JS | 92

Vintage: 2014

Size: 750ml

ABV: 15%

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red

Country/Region: United States, Napa Valley

Along with dark, rich aromas of mocha, chocolate and marinated cherries, the wine breathes out a vibrancy and aromatic brightness, laced with notes of incense, graphite, and toasting oak.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Their flagship wine, the 2014 Proprietary Red Dancing Hares is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The color is a saturated ruby/purple, the nose sightly more restrained than the Mad Hatter, but intense, deep and promising. The wine is extremely full-bodied, with notes of chocolate, espresso, crème de cassis, licorice and blackberry, this has killer intensity, super full-bodied richness, but is relatively light on its feet for this kind of mass and richness.

• James Suckling: For all its size, this is more nuanced than you might expect, as the rich core of dark berry, mocha and spice flexes tannic muscle. The flavors glide as this opens up, with the tannins working their way into a more agreeable mode.

Producer Information

Dancing Hares Vineyard is a wine producer situated in the foothills of Howell Mountain in the Napa Valley. The estate produces two Cabernet Sauvignon-predominant blended wines from a small 2-hectare (5-acre) vineyard site. Only around 800 cases of wine are produced each year. Only a few bottles find their way outside northern California. The property is divided into two separate plots. The upper vineyard is characterized by volcanic soils and is planted to Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot, while Merlot, Cabernet Franc and smaller quantities of Petit Verdot are planted in the clay-loam soils of the lower vineyard parcels. These grape varieties are blended to produce the estate’s flagship Bordeaux red blend, Dancing Hares, and its second label, Mad Hatter. The first Dancing Hares vintage was produced in 2003, although the wine wasn’t released to market until 2011. This vintage was a blend of 47 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 34 percent Merlot and 19 percent Cabernet Franc. More recent vintages have been supplemented with a small percentage of Petit Verdot.