2019 Fortunate Son (Hundred Acre) "The Warrior" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
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Bid History: 1 Bid2019 Fortunate Son (Hundred Acre) "The Warrior" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 2019 Fortunate Son (Hundred Acre) "The Warrior" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (98JD, 97DC, 97JS, 95RP). Jeb Dunnuck: "The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon The Warrior is riveting stuff, offering an incredible array of sweet darker currants, tobacco leaf, lead pencil, and classy oak. It's a big, rich wine, yet it's not over the top and has a semi-opaque purple hue, medium to full body, seamless tannins, and a layered, silky, incredibly satisfying style that's going to evolve for two decades." (02/2023) Jeb Dunnuck: "The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon The Warrior is riveting stuff, offering an incredible array of sweet darker currants, tobacco leaf, lead pencil, and classy oak. It's a big, rich wine, yet it's not over the top and has a semi-opaque purple hue, medium to full body, seamless tannins, and a layered, silky, incredibly satisfying style that's going to evolve for two decades." (02/2023)
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Minimum Bid: $625.00
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End Date: Thursday, Jun 4, 11:20 AM PT
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2019 Fortunate Son (Hundred Acre) "The Warrior" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Quantity: 3
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Provenance: Purchased directly from the winery and stored in a temperature and humidity controlled home cellar.
Condition: Excellent
Joe's Czerwinski's notes on the producer for Wine Advocate: "Woodbridge is fiercely protective of his fruit sourcing, refusing to say, except in the most general terms, where the fruit originates for his Fortunate Sons bottlings. He'll approach family-owned vineyards and pay by the acre (wants low yields), bringing in Jim Barbour to do the farming, with the biggest caveat being that growers can't say to whom they're selling. Woodbridge says he'll pick in several passes, so it can be three or four times as expensive as if the vineyard had been picked all at once. The harvest is cluster sorted in the field, then by cluster again on the table, destemmed and sorted by hand, then through an optical sorter, then again by hand on the way to the puncheon for fermentation in barrel. "Not a single thing makes it through that shouldn't," Woodbridge says. "It's the least profitable line we have, but I drink it." 5/2023
Professional Reviews
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Jeb Dunnuck
“The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon The Warrior is riveting stuff, offering an incredible array of sweet darker currants, tobacco leaf, lead pencil, and classy oak. It's a big, rich wine, yet it's not over the top and has a semi-opaque purple hue, medium to full body, seamless tannins, and a layered, silky, incredibly satisfying style that's going to evolve for two decades.” (02/2023)
97
Decanter
“structured with exotic layers of fruit, spices, florals, and a wealth of ironstone minerals. Swelling with a full-bodied richness of creamy textured blackberry and black cherry fruit, plus liquorice with hints of spearmint laced with tobacco. Pixelated tannins build the stature and presence of the wine on the palate, and the finish is long with wet slate. It is a complete and harmonious wine of freshness, power, and grace. Woodbridge purchased the David Fulton Vineyard in St. Helena on Fulton Lane, and a winery on site is now the home of Fortunate Son and 6ha of Cabernet Sauvignon vines managed by Jim Barbour. Woodbridge appointed his son Cameron as cellar master in 2023. Woodbridge acquired a second estate vineyard for the Fortunate Son label in 2022 called Larkmead Vineyards. The 7.5ha ranch has been renamed True Romance and will serve as the site of a future Fortunate Son winery and estate slated to open in 2027. (JC)” (09/2023)
97
James Suckling
“Aromas of dark berries, chocolate, terra-cotta and bark. Full and layered with fine velvety tannins that give a juicy and intense finish. Delicious all around. From the owner of Napa’s Hundred Acre winery. Drink or hold.” (11/2023)
95
Wine Advocate
“Across the board, the 2019s at this address are riper and plusher than the 2018s, and Fortunate Son's 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon The Warrior is no exception. Black cherries and red cherries join cedar and vanilla shadings on the nose, while the full-bodied palate is expansive and plush, turning velvety on the long finish. (JC)” (05/2023)
Product Details
Quantity: 3
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Provenance: Purchased directly from the winery and stored in a temperature and humidity controlled home cellar.
Condition: Excellent
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