Arnot-Roberts, Cabernet Sauvignon Clajeux Sonoma, 2023 SO031726 Luigi Einaudi Look for black cherry

Look for black cherry

Hand-harvested fruit sees gentle pressing and partial barrel fermentation

a young-vine field blend from a single west-facing slope on the Paardeberg

showing blackberry and dried leaf on the nose with a juicy palate held taut by chalky minerality—a wine that rewards attention to its austere beauty

Arnot-Roberts, Cabernet Sauvignon Clajeux Sonoma, 2023 SO031726 Luigi Einaudi Look for black cherryArnot Roberts' most elegant Cabernet, from a steep volcanic hillside in Chalk Hill that Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts have farmed since 2003. Clajeux Vineyard sits on rocky volcanic soils between Knights Valley and the Russian River Valley, surrounded by native oak and madrone, with cool afternoon breezes climbing up the canyon. The vines were planted in 1999 by Don and Carolyn Vogt; A R works the same fourteen rows year after year.