Hundred Acre
About Hundred Acre
The founder of Hundred Acre, Jayson Woodbridge, is something of an enigma to the world of fine wine. Despite his outspoken and sometimes contrarian nature, he almost never meets directly with any members of the wine media.
Woodbridge considers Hundred Acre to be something of a personal quest - printed on each label of his wine is the opening verse of Homer's Odyssey. This maverick winemaker altered careers fairly suddenly and drastically in the late 1990s, switching mergers and acquisitions for soil typography and harvest dates! Success as an Investment Banker has afforded Hundred Acre with an uncommon advantage over many wine producers - a healthy level of capital.
No expense is spared in crafting any of the cuvées offered by this magical estate. In fact, Woodbridge is known to take multiple decisions which fly in the face of both the prevailing wisdom and fiscal prudency in a single vintage.
His appetite for risk has been richly rewarded in the form of some 24 100pt scores across a mere 20 vintages. Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate) has described this producer as "thinking on another plane of existence", and it is hard to recall another estate anywhere in the world that has been this consistently excellent over the past decade or two.
"The wine quality continues to be among the most singular and profound in all of Napa Valley"
Robert Parker
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California | 1 | 99 (WA) | HK$12,500.00 | |||||
Wine Advocate (99)Medium garnet-purple colored, the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Kayli Morgan Vineyard simply sings of potpourri, spice cake and rose hip tea with menthol, tilled soil, tobacco and earth plus a waft of crushed stones. The full-bodied palate is fantastically dense and beautifully perfumed with lovely freshness and super fine-grained tannins, finishing very, very long. |
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California | 1 | 99 (WA) | HK$12,600.00 | |||||
Wine Advocate (99)The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Kayli Morgan Vineyard Deep Time spent 48 months in barrel, which is amazing when you consider how vibrant it is. Medium garnet colored, it hits the ground running with bright, expressive scents of raspberry coulis, blackcurrant cordial, baked plums and Morello cherries giving way to a beguiling perfume of potpourri, new leather, cloves and unsmoked cigars plus wafts of sassafras and pencil lead. The generously fruited, full-bodied palate ups the game with exotic spice fireworks among the rich, opulent fruit, supported by firm, tight-grained tannins and bold freshness, finishing very long. |