HUNDRED ACRE: worth the HYPE?
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- In this video, we’re tasting three videos from perhaps Napa Valley’s hottest producer - Hundred Acre Winery. Created by one of Napa’s most controversial and fiercely independent winemakers, Jason Woodbridge, Hundred Acre wines made their debut in 2000. Since then, no other winery or winemaker have received more perfect 100-point scores from major wine critics that Hundred Acre and Jason Woodbridge. Hundred Acre Winery produces cabernet sauvignon wines from three vineyards in Napa - Kayli Morgan (now known as Morgan’s Way), Ark, and Far and Few Between. Except for the Far and Few Between vineyard that contains 10% plantings of Cabernet Franc, all the vineyards grow 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. Seeking to “make magic” Jason Woodbridge spares no expense in his winemaking. From the vineyard practices (one grape cluster per shoot, shade cloth, misting systems) to harvesting (by hand over multiple days, single layers, refrigerated), to fermentation (in 500L French Oak Puncheons) and barrel aging (24-30 months in 100% new oak), Hundred Acre is famously striving for perfection where no detail is too small. We are tasting the 2012 Hundred Acre Kayli Morgan, the 2013 Hundred Acre Wraith, and the 2014 Hundred Acre Ark. In addition, B and Stacey added a fourth wine to the line-up to do a blind tasting. Will Pops be able to identify the “imposter”? So is Hundred Acre the hottest winery in Napa Valley? Watch our episode of Our Pour Decisions and see if B and Pops, along with sommelier Stacey, are buying into the hype.
Timeline:
0:00 Introduction
1:15 A Closer Look at the Bottles
2:36 Mystery Bottle Reveal
3:45 2014 Ark Tasting
5:40 2021 Layer Cake Tasting
6:51 2012 Kayli Morgan Tasting
8:52 2013 Wraith Tasting
9:59 Is Hundred Acre the Hottest Winery in Napa?
10:18 Blind Tasting Reveal
11:39 Conclusions
Just want to say that this is the best new wine channel out there. I hope the channel grows exponentially, keep up the great work! Also thanks to pops for opening up his cellar for our amusement lol
You mean the worst
Agree
There’s high quality to low quality
Mystery Components
No fast talking and audio difficulties
Single individual channels creates Boredom
One Man
Two Women older with wisdom younger gives it a youthful experience
Very good video! A suggestion, If you’re going to blind him to try to “trick” him- give him a lower $$$ Napa cab and see what he prefers. Something like Chateau Montelena or Heitz. That would be a fun comparison. $70-$80 Napa cabs vs $500-600 Napa cabs.
Cheers!
Yes, the best popular wine channel I have seen in 20 years!
“I brought the wrinkle.” - Stacey 🤣🤣🤣 Hilarious!
You are the only RUclips channel that offers this wide range of high-end, top-of-the-top cult wine-tasting experiences. Thank you for sharing the experience.
I wake up on Saturday mornings here in South Africa with a nee video of your channel each week. This is a highlight of my day - love the content 🎉
Another great episode featuring a banger 🔥 vineyard! Could you guys consider doing a future show on Pop’s favorite QPR wines? I LOVE all of the high end wines, but don’t have the budget to drink them frequently. What are his recommendations for best “daily drinkers” or “cellar defenders?”
I'm so excited for this video! I recently tried the Hundred Acre Kayli Morgan 2006 and it may be the best wine I've ever had.
Just had the pleasure of trying a 2006 HA Cab at a friend’s. Once the wine opened up, it was really good. Agree with OPD hosts, decant for a least 30-45 minutes. Excellent video and content.
This channel is great so cool that you guys have these wines to try!
I love your videos!! Waiting for your next ones I'd appreciate if you can do some SQN tastings, as well as some Bordeaux right banks top wines like Ausone, Figeac, La Fleur, Le Pin etc. Top Australian wines like the Grange would be great as well!!
My fav wine channel 🤩
Fun video. I like this format. I'd love to see reviews of more of budget bottles. Cheers.
Wow! Just the video I needed. My distributor in SG now heavily mkting this wine but with hefty $600+ price tag for the cheapest bottle.
Welcome back! Great job! Amazing wines, minus #2 😁🍷
I was checking out your cellar and was wondering why you have a lot of bottles with the cork facing up rather than down. Can you please explain why you chose this way? One last question please. Who is Stacey in all of this? On a separate note, I find your videos very well done and it is sort of... relaxing to watch them.
Nice guys !!! Love the blind tasting, and cheers for finding the pirate 😊😊 !!! Have a few in my cellar of those, a little younger, so holding on to them. Definitely great wines, in the top of Napa for sure. They recently started a Pinot Noir brand: Summer Dreams. As a Pinot lover, had to buy these. Thanks again for the nice video, and cheers to you !!!
Another great vertical. Cheers!
Thank you for sharing. Love that you threw a different wine into the mix. But would love to see a higher value wine like what one subscriber mentioned, Ch Montelena, Heinz or Joseph Phelps, or something in the $100 bracket.
Keep up the good work guys! Haven’t tried 100 acre yet but it’s on my list. Just tried some To Kalon wine for the first time.
Love blind tastings!!! Great channel. And beautiful wines.
love it! keep it going!
I've avoided Hundred Acre because I thought it would be similar to Harlan, a wine I've tried and wasn't impressed by especially at that price point. Your tasting and review has made me want to go out and seek Hundred Acre and if I ever meet Jayson, I'll tell him it was all thanks to your channel.
Grange, 707, vega sicilia, super tuscan (masseto ...), more right bank bordeaux.
Please do more if you can
I like your dad’s confidence. He was willing to put y’alls channel on the line if he guessed it wrong lol.
It’s been fun seeing you open so many iconic wines. Just a suggestion for next time you try to throw in a wine to test your taste buds, I think it would be more interesting to see a line up of these three against a a good but more affordable Napa Cab at around $100. It’s still a fraction of the price but if you can tell that apart it gives viewers a better sense of how much better these wines are. It would be even better if the line up of top end wines aren’t all from the same producers because that makes it easier to guess based on a wine that’s different from the rest.
Been following you guys since your first video. Question, for someone drinking chateaneuf du pape for the first time would you recommend 2020 beaucastel or 2020 clos de pape?
You guys are superlative! Wine luv from Blighty xx 🏴🏴🇬🇧
I fell of the chair when he said “ I think these wines are well balanced” and then I see the label 15,5% alcohol and 100% new oak😂
Americans are quite funny
Also they said it's sweet... omg. Americans like "off dry" wines which is disgusting. I don't understand how they can drink a sweet wine with a steak.
Great video
Nice job
Nice! Let’s do some Petrus vintages.
I am fortunate to have a couple cases of Hundred Acre in my cellar. I drank a 2012 Ark a few weeks ago. I recommend from this and other Hundred Acre I’ve had that 2-3 hours in the decanter transform a good wine into an amazing wine. Six years to get on the waiting list? Damn. When I retired a couple years ago I stopped buying most wines. I haven’t seen an email from Jayson in a while so I guess I’m no longer on the approved list.
I Have several hundred acres so ,I was glad to see this video, I wonder where the Few and Far Between stacks up next to the others they tasted
Sticking to the theme of Napa - can you guys review Mayacamas?
Love to see your videos, maybe because i love wine and I’m also a father of a princess 😊 probably when my daughter have age to drink ill do also some videos 😅 wish you all the best
Next time you do a tasting in this price range it might be nice to mix in a bottle from the same region priced around $75-150 to then go into the differences, if there are still noticeable ones. I think what separates wines starts to operate on much thinner margins after a certain price, with some exceptions.
I recall that in one of your videos, you mentioned a website where you purchase hard to find wines. Can't seem to find that again. Could you list that?
Can you do a video on Scarecrow wine?
I grew up in South Africa and have had many big, powerful reds but for me, 15.5% is just too high in alcohol to be drinkable, elegant and fresh enough to warrant a score over 95 max. Having said that, I’ve never tried any of these wines so what do I know
I get allocation every year. But they keep increasing the price every year. Hard to buy 3 bottles at $2500 now.
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I have a wine for your next blind tasting addition.
Guys do yall get this wine on discount? Like this is thousands of dollars
Woulda prob been better to throw in a fortunate son. And hundred acre was hot like a decade ago no? The wines are great don’t get me wrong, but if you’re talking about “hot” Napa producers, the top two would be MD and KE. Iykyk
500-700$ no thanks. I’m sure there are wines in the 80-100$ range that are just as good
I'm sure the law of diminishing returns comes into play and at some point you may be just be paying premium for scarcity, name, or both. I mostly drink white wine from France and you can still find unreal wines for $50-125
Wine Text TV, Wine Library, Konstantin Baum, Wine Align, Dr. Matt Horkey, Bon Appetit, Wine King, Wine Folly-all of these wine shows will help you improve if you watch them. Your show, which I want to like, is stilted and just not engaging. It's almost like you are reading from a teleprompter and not just riffing on such beautiful wine. Don't act be yourself. Wine descriptions should be fun, engaging, and thought-provoking. Please learn from others, hint, let the somm set up the blind, and have fun with the novice and the dad describing the wine. Dare to be different.
No thanks. nothing says “I’m a basic (with cash burning in pocket )” like chasing some Napa meme wines.
You taste interesting wines. But your set up is awful. Like some cheap commercial. Why not just taste the wine. Evaluate them. Talk about them. Score them. And that's it. That's how other wine channels do it. Mathew Horkey. Konstantin Baum.Antoney Storm and others do it. Watch and learn.
Another wounderful video! Thanks!
If someone says the wine is "sweet" I won't buy it, especially with 15.5% of alcohol. It's not a wine, it's a liqueur.