Nature and Wine with Joseph Herzog: Discovering the New Napa Oak Knoll

[music] This is >> the ma. >> This is our life. >> This is called the yabo bridge. >> It's a narrow bridge. This is our We just have to drink enough. Mati would say janess because it's perfectly balanced. I would say better wines. >> This is perfectly balanced. You go on the road. >> You sit over here and you open a bottle of wine. Find a better place. Let's go. Let's find a better place. [music] >> [music] >> I could be a professional. >> Look. >> Hey, in this nobody's watching. You could have plastic. >> Yeah. I don't want the park guy to come along. >> You don't want broken glass. >> Bush. Next week is KFWE. >> Yes. >> I sent you eminence. >> Yes. >> Okano. I didn't even try it yet. >> I know you didn't try. We had to come in the woods for that. >> Beautiful and very exciting. >> How is it different uh from >> So it's a different region again. >> Again, Okano you made the last time. >> Okno. We had a single vineyard out of Ok. >> Vineard in 20 21 >> 22. >> This is a different vineyard. This is actually that was the hillside. This is the floor valley floor. No evidence on that. >> 23 now is where all the 23s are coming out except for Pino and Shard. Now we have 24 the white wines and Pino which we only age four on one plus here. The big reds the 23s are coming. We're going to have a lot of fun at KWE. But here something before everyone else. >> Where are we? >> Technically we're in Los Angeles. >> Okay. If we are don't look at the graph [music] at the geographical area that we are, then we're just in heaven. >> It's amazing. By the way, the wine didn't breathe, but we did a pretty good breathing job walking up here, [music] so hopefully it will help our senses. I got to LA late late last night. >> How did you pick this this mat shabas? How did you know to say, "Mate, I'm coming the 25th." I'm not sure. I'm actually >> Your father was going to be in Arizona. You told maybe you're going to come. So you took him out to Shabas if you would have someday. >> Perfect. Perfect. We wouldn't I wouldn't be here. >> Sorry for all of you watching and sitting in 18 in 12 in 24 in of snow. Enjoy the snow while it's white and nice and fluffy. So just by drinking without anything, just by the nose and the mouth feel, you know it's Nappa. You're getting blue fruit. You're getting elderbererries. You're getting dark purple currant licorice. It's not misha, right? >> This is not mush. >> Yeah. Surprisingly, the wine tastes amazing. And we just opened it. We just opened it. >> So, I think that's another hit. When the Okamo came out in 2022, it sold like this, right? >> It was ready. It was 22 vintage cases because the 22 vintage was a very stock. >> This is No, this is going to be in two weeks. So, we'll be in stock. It just landed in New York, I think, actually on Thursday. >> So, we'll have it for a good price for Pisa for the course. It's not I think it needs to open up. So, you drink it for one cup and then you keep it for for the meal the next day. >> This is going to be easy to drink like you said, but it's going to open. As it opens, the tannins are going to start showing. You're going to get more of the mouth, feel more of the lingering finish. Um, I even think start have it for the first case and then leave it for the meal for the season or use it. >> Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. >> Don't wait for the next morning. You won't be able to resist this one. >> Now, it does help. The setting that you're drinking wine does help. I think the setting does help. >> You do this all the time. You do your weekly uh wine of the week. You go to Pro Park. What do you know? >> I'm Prospect Park. But this is not this is a little deeper into the roots. And plus, this is literally in California where this wine is from. And I'm sitting here with you. [sighs] >> I'm sitting. [music] [music] >> [music]