Great video and I applaud the tenacity of ya guys to get an obviously extremely private individual to open up his home and passionate hobby to the internet.... beautiful setup he's got and very successful.
Beautiful cellar and easily one of your best episodes. You should really keep up with this idea. It’ll be incredible to see what other ones you might come across.
What a cellar - unreal. Love this channel and the peek behind the curtain you offer. A lot of the wine covered here is also not what I tend to drink so it's also been educational to hear all these Napa reds get discussed when I'm mostly drinking white wines from France, Germany, Austria, and Spain. The learning never stops.
One thing I really like about Mark is you can tell he's truly self-made, and even though he's very wealthy now, he worked his way up to where he is now, including his wine tastes. Great episode!
Great video and breathtaking cellar! Funny the similarities, my wife too has a more discerning palette than me. Also, I started collecting, going to tastings, etc..in the early 90’s and like Mark I also started with Caymus. Then at an expo in 2001 I latched onto a bottle of ‘96 Chateau Lynch-Bages and proceeded to go on a Bordeaux rampage. Currently the collection is more diverse as for us it’s mainly all about wine/food pairing.
Great video! What a collection.I love Oakville Ranch as well. Great wines and Sheilia does a wonderful job as GM at the estate. A must visit if I might say so. Cheers from Holland.
Thanks for your time...! You and your daughter bring a nice calm pleasant respectful vibe to this deep lavish vino-phile couple !! The surface was barely scratched as far as wine collection content...[ understood ], however off the record, was he generous in offering open bottle samples or " would you like to try ?! " moments...?! 🧐...lastly, did they give you a groovy vino to take home...?!🤯🍷 ...Enjoy your show...! Regards, Eric D'Arcy 😎🍷☮✴
Another great episode! Lovely concept to visit other wine cellars. I do not have an Alpina, but you might be interested in another ‘gadget’ that I do have; the Eurocave Wine Bar 2.0. Keeps two bottles at precise drinking temperature (both red and white) and also automatically vacuums them. Perhaps you do have this one already, or knew about it?
I love this! You guys are right in the strike zone of where all of us aspiring wine collectors who are fighting the good fight to one day have a collection like this! Inspiring. Also you guys continue to improve your videos and have found your groove. Really comfortable in front of the camera! Would love to see more of this! I still remember my one-time hundred acre experience… dinner at Meat Market in WPB.. what a scene… was with a client and suggested a bottle of Freemark Abby to keep our bill in check. He sprung for the 100 acre instead… lol
Been waiting for someone to bring up Gargiulo. Absolutely my favorite Napa stuff out there. You guys should give them a go and see how it compares. Unbelievable value.
@@OurPourDecisions We just went a couple weeks ago on a repeat visit. Very chill location and a focus on just making great wines. They invite list members out for concerts on-property, or they have a yearly Nashville event. View is also super great even being in the valley.
You can tour my 150 bottle collection of $35 wine bid vintage California Pinot stuffed in various cardboard boxes if it comes with a bottle of Montrachet!
i have a different version of Alpina and it's awesome. I use it will traditional decanters. First x mins/hours accelerated and last hour in the glass decanter. Nearly always perfect!
Very interesting! Personally, I am more into old world wines (as I live in the old world). The 2011 Montrachet from Marc Colin is a really great gift! I like great Montrachets - they are not easy ot find and often ont worth the price!
Interesting to see a civilian wine nerd cellar. Please drink and enjoy your bottles. As a restarateur with a quite famous cellar, I get offers on a monthly basis. Ppl who want to sell their collection. Mostly health ot “hording” reasons.
I like the idea having the dining room in it but glassed off. So unrealistic to dine in the freezing cold cellar! What a collection! Totally agree, you need to have right insulation and drywall!
Video idea: no one has talked about bringing an expensive bottle out to a restaurant, when to open it at the restaurant. Drinking something before the expensive bottle to prep the pallet or how to have the somm keep it at the table. Just an idea thanks. Really enjoy the channel.
Loving your channel. Noticed a bottle of 2 Buck Chuck (Charles Shaw) on the table at the end of the episode. Can you tell me why? Was this a bottle you thought he didn’t have?
Lovely tour of his wine cellar. Definitely not my style but beautiful nevertheless. Breville makes a similar if not the same device as that Alpine. I think it must be a branding deal? I've tried the Breville and it definitely works in terms of getting the benefits of aeration super-fast but it will never "age" your wines to get the complex, tertiary notes that aged-wine lovers long for. I've heard critics say using a blender or shaking the wine vigorously in a large container can get you the same effects and I'm inclined to believe them although I've never tried.
great video - anyone else have experience with the Alpina? I keep reading where micro bubbles are a breakthrough for serious wine collectors but I can't find much real world data...
5:34 - False. High alcohol content liquor (whiskey, tequila, gin, vodka) has zero benefit from storing in a cool temperature. It does not require refrigeration. It would not change flavor profile if you kept it in your car for a Month in Death Valley during Summer as wine would. It's a nice display though.
I think Mark was simply suggestion the bottles like dark and cool conditions. It won't affect the spirits one way or another but it will keep evaporation rates low.
Sorry, I don't have a wine cellar like I'm seeing with you wonderful people. When you're on the East Coast, look me up. I have a special bottle for you all. But you have to do a blind wine tasting for scoring my gift with your special wines. Decant my gift for 1 hour.
If I wanted to be a bit elitist, I'd say the Alpina and tools like it are for drinking wine that simply is too young to drink. If a wine is ready to go, we don't need that sort of extended aeration. But, I certainly understand that not everyone has been collecting for as long as some of us and thus not everyone has wine that has been aged long enough. In that case, I guess extended aeration makes sense. Cheers!
Cheers! It's a useful tool if you just want to give a wine a try and just can't wait years for it to get ready. Now that being said it won't in any way help with flavor development - so for that you definitely need to wait.
What's the point of having so many bottles, especially putting the owner’s age in the equation? Unless the wine is tasted and spitted out, there is no chance that the poor liver could tolerate that amount.
@@pandaman1968 Then it is rather strange collection since, as we saw, there are dozens of bottles of the same wine. Each collection should have some goal to be achieved. For example, to have each classified Bordeaux château represented or similar. This cellar seems more of buying in bulk and aging for future drinking.
In my experience the importance of additional humidity in a wine store is really over emphasised. Some people argue that the cork in contact with wine gives sufficient moisture/humidity
Great video and I applaud the tenacity of ya guys to get an obviously extremely private individual to open up his home and passionate hobby to the internet.... beautiful setup he's got and very successful.
Great to see a Napa-heavy collection with some real classics!
Beautiful cellar and easily one of your best episodes. You should really keep up with this idea. It’ll be incredible to see what other ones you might come across.
Love your celllar tours!
Fun video. Thanks. Out of my league, for sure.
Most enjoyable thank you. Both viewing the wine collections and just as important, the stories behind them and the collectors.
What a cellar - unreal. Love this channel and the peek behind the curtain you offer. A lot of the wine covered here is also not what I tend to drink so it's also been educational to hear all these Napa reds get discussed when I'm mostly drinking white wines from France, Germany, Austria, and Spain. The learning never stops.
Yeah, that's what's so fun about wine. Always something to learn. Cheers!
3:31 LMAO. Unfortunately, I subscribed long before this 😂
Great format, keep it up!
One thing I really like about Mark is you can tell he's truly self-made, and even though he's very wealthy now, he worked his way up to where he is now, including his wine tastes. Great episode!
Great video and breathtaking cellar! Funny the similarities, my wife too has a more discerning palette than me. Also, I started collecting, going to tastings, etc..in the early 90’s and like Mark I also started with Caymus. Then at an expo in 2001 I latched onto a bottle of ‘96 Chateau Lynch-Bages and proceeded to go on a Bordeaux rampage. Currently the collection is more diverse as for us it’s mainly all about wine/food pairing.
Can’t wait to see where this series goes!
Great cellar and really cool collector!
Great video! What a collection.I love Oakville Ranch as well. Great wines and Sheilia does a wonderful job as GM at the estate. A must visit if I might say so. Cheers from Holland.
Thanks for your time...! You and your daughter bring a nice calm pleasant respectful vibe to this deep lavish vino-phile couple !! The surface was barely scratched as far as wine collection content...[ understood ], however off the record, was he generous in offering open bottle samples or " would you like to try ?! " moments...?! 🧐...lastly, did they give you a groovy vino to take home...?!🤯🍷
...Enjoy your show...!
Regards, Eric D'Arcy
😎🍷☮✴
Thank you! They were very generous and we enjoyed 3 bottles of wine together from their cellar.
What an amazing cellar !! And love all the stories ! And ... Will definitely look for the Alpina, never heard of it before !! Thanks again guys !!
This is probably my favorite of your videos so far. Mark was great! Keep it up guys!
Thank you so much!
Awesome video and approach - he talked Gargiulo and I saw OVID - 2 of my collectibles so I knew I liked him !!
Awesome cellar and video. Thank You.
Is Mark wearing a Road America race track hat? I like him already
The first thing I noticed was that he was wearing a Road America hat. My guess is he owns a few vintage race cars.
Love the look of your wine cellar, but this one is also looking amazing. 💯
Thank you! Cheers!
Great, keep these coming
Wonderful cellar.
This was a fun episode
Great video, love the editing details, very professional. Keep up the good work 🙏🏻
Thanks! B works hard editing each video!
Love this channel. Love the honesty and variety. Appointment television for my wife and I when new videos come out!
Wow! Love that. Thank you so much!
fun video. please keep doing this!
Great design. I’d add some Chateaus 1855 First Growth, some Italian like Brunello, Amarone and Barolo, and many more from the OLD WORLD.
I think Mark is on his way to doing that!
Very cool episode!
great channel!
The best wine channel at the moment in my opinion!
@@Ivan-Hernandezwe really appreciate that! Cheers!
Another great episode! Lovely concept to visit other wine cellars.
I do not have an Alpina, but you might be interested in another ‘gadget’ that I do have; the Eurocave Wine Bar 2.0. Keeps two bottles at precise drinking temperature (both red and white) and also automatically vacuums them. Perhaps you do have this one already, or knew about it?
I don't. I use the Coravin when I want just a glass of wine.
I love this! You guys are right in the strike zone of where all of us aspiring wine collectors who are fighting the good fight to one day have a collection like this! Inspiring. Also you guys continue to improve your videos and have found your groove. Really comfortable in front of the camera! Would love to see more of this!
I still remember my one-time hundred acre experience… dinner at Meat Market in WPB.. what a scene… was with a client and suggested a bottle of Freemark Abby to keep our bill in check. He sprung for the 100 acre instead… lol
Thank you so much! Love that story, too! Cheers 🥂
Been waiting for someone to bring up Gargiulo. Absolutely my favorite Napa stuff out there. You guys should give them a go and see how it compares. Unbelievable value.
I need to convince Mark to take me there!
@@OurPourDecisions We just went a couple weeks ago on a repeat visit. Very chill location and a focus on just making great wines. They invite list members out for concerts on-property, or they have a yearly Nashville event. View is also super great even being in the valley.
You can tour my 150 bottle collection of $35 wine bid vintage California Pinot stuffed in various cardboard boxes if it comes with a bottle of Montrachet!
LOL - love it!
i have a different version of Alpina and it's awesome. I use it will traditional decanters. First x mins/hours accelerated and last hour in the glass decanter. Nearly always perfect!
That's really fascinating. So you think I should get one?
Very interesting! Personally, I am more into old world wines (as I live in the old world). The 2011 Montrachet from Marc Colin is a really great gift! I like great Montrachets - they are not easy ot find and often ont worth the price!
Interesting to see a civilian wine nerd cellar. Please drink and enjoy your bottles. As a restarateur with a quite famous cellar, I get offers on a monthly basis. Ppl who want to sell their collection. Mostly health ot “hording” reasons.
nice one!
does anybody know which glasses they used?
I like the idea having the dining room in it but glassed off. So unrealistic to dine in the freezing cold cellar! What a collection!
Totally agree, you need to have right insulation and drywall!
It's quite spectacular. Not sure our video did it justice.
Video idea: no one has talked about bringing an expensive bottle out to a restaurant, when to open it at the restaurant. Drinking something before the expensive bottle to prep the pallet or how to have the somm keep it at the table. Just an idea thanks. Really enjoy the channel.
Loving your channel. Noticed a bottle of 2 Buck Chuck (Charles Shaw) on the table at the end of the episode. Can you tell me why? Was this a bottle you thought he didn’t have?
Pop’s brought it as a decoy bottle to try and play a joke on Mark- but we didn’t include that in the video! Good catch!
Nice Road America hat.
I’m only up to 92 bottles 🤣. Bought a rare one this week, a 1969 Viúva Gomes Colares Tinto. Grape variety is Ramisco. Region is Lisboa.
Gotta start somewhere! Congrats!
Lovely tour of his wine cellar. Definitely not my style but beautiful nevertheless.
Breville makes a similar if not the same device as that Alpine. I think it must be a branding deal? I've tried the Breville and it definitely works in terms of getting the benefits of aeration super-fast but it will never "age" your wines to get the complex, tertiary notes that aged-wine lovers long for. I've heard critics say using a blender or shaking the wine vigorously in a large container can get you the same effects and I'm inclined to believe them although I've never tried.
Looks pretty Napa heavy but he makes up for it with his Blanton’s collection
I could live in that cellar
great video - anyone else have experience with the Alpina? I keep reading where micro bubbles are a breakthrough for serious wine collectors but I can't find much real world data...
5:34 - False. High alcohol content liquor (whiskey, tequila, gin, vodka) has zero benefit from storing in a cool temperature. It does not require refrigeration. It would not change flavor profile if you kept it in your car for a Month in Death Valley during Summer as wine would. It's a nice display though.
I think Mark was simply suggestion the bottles like dark and cool conditions. It won't affect the spirits one way or another but it will keep evaporation rates low.
B = A+ There! I said it!
at least he listed one under $100 as a daily drinker lol
Sorry, I don't have a wine cellar like I'm seeing with you wonderful people. When you're on the East Coast, look me up. I have a special bottle for you all. But you have to do a blind wine tasting for scoring my gift with your special wines. Decant my gift for 1 hour.
Count us in! :-)
Pardon if I offend anyone but that Absurd wine looks like a bottle I would find at a Walmart lol.
His biggest mistake was purchasing Clase Azul tequila.
This is so ostentatious, outrageous 😂
If I wanted to be a bit elitist, I'd say the Alpina and tools like it are for drinking wine that simply is too young to drink. If a wine is ready to go, we don't need that sort of extended aeration. But, I certainly understand that not everyone has been collecting for as long as some of us and thus not everyone has wine that has been aged long enough. In that case, I guess extended aeration makes sense. Cheers!
Cheers! It's a useful tool if you just want to give a wine a try and just can't wait years for it to get ready. Now that being said it won't in any way help with flavor development - so for that you definitely need to wait.
What's the point of having so many bottles, especially putting the owner’s age in the equation? Unless the wine is tasted and spitted out, there is no chance that the poor liver could tolerate that amount.
@@pandaman1968 Then it is rather strange collection since, as we saw, there are dozens of bottles of the same wine. Each collection should have some goal to be achieved. For example, to have each classified Bordeaux château represented or similar. This cellar seems more of buying in bulk and aging for future drinking.
The tequila collection needs work. Clase Azul, while having a nice bottle, is not a good tequila.
In my experience the importance of additional humidity in a wine store is really over emphasised. Some people argue that the cork in contact with wine gives sufficient moisture/humidity
Those people are incredibly wrong and are drinking some terrible wine.