Deep garnet. Aromas of morello cherries, boysenberry jam, blackcurrant candy, tobacco leaves, sage, understory vegetation, and pencil shavings. Full-bodied and energetic, with a firm, muscular mouthfeel. Fully ripe fruit and tannins make their presence known. The finish is long, lively, and complex. This is a bottle that encapsulates everything great about the 2018 vintage. The wine is aged for a minimum of 40 months in carefully selected, top-quality French oak barriques. The barrel stalks are selected for their fine grain and are only used after being naturally dried for three years. 2018 is a vintage with a strong presence and a high level of completion. It is also a very complex and serious vintage. For Jason, it is the perfect vintage. Wraith is Hundred Acres' own vineyards, Arc, Morgan's Way (formerly Cayley Morgan), and Few & Far Between are third.
It is an ultra-premium wine that is the result of a perfect union of grapes from the finest plots of each vineyard. It is a "perfect" wine that takes the best of both worlds. The individuality and beauty of each single vineyard blends together to create a very unique and complex wine. Hundred Acres is a boutique winery in Napa Valley that was founded in 1998 (at the time at age 36) by Jason Woodbridge, who made a fortune at a young age while working in investment banking. Jason has established a "0 or 100" policy, strongly believing that "there is no point in doing it unless it is of the highest quality," and produces "perfect" Cabernet Sauvignon that allows no compromise whatsoever. Hundred Acres is not a wine made by striving for "perfection," but a wine that is brewed with the utmost care, with "perfection" being the fundamental premise.
This is a Lutra Premium wine. The grapes from each vineyard are harvested by hand in batches according to the aging process. After harvest, the grapes are thoroughly hand-selected and separated by harvest time, plot, and vineyard, and then fermented, pressed, and aged separately. The French oak used at Hundred Acres is only fine-grained wood from specific forests, and only high-spec barrels that are naturally dried for at least three years and then toasted are used. All wines are aged for at least 30 months, and only those that Jason considers to be complete are bottled and released. Of course, wines that are not "perfect" are not released in the first place.