2024 Arnot-Roberts Gamay Noir

2024 Arnot-Roberts Gamay NoirWe would happily take this wine to a Cru Beaujolais showdown. En garde, Foillard! Du yr best, Dutraive! The guys at Arnot Roberts know what theyre doing, and source their Gamay from the sexy pants granitic soils (just like Beaujolais) high up (3000 feet!) in the Sierra Foothills. Theres a tiny bit of carbonic maceration, but this aint no fruity tooty quaffer. This babys serious, and visions of cherries, cranberries, pepper, and stony, smoky soil will

Local winemaker Terah Bajjalieh sources the exceptional organic grapes for this 95% Sangiovese and 5% Falanghina coferment from the venerable CCOF-certified Siletto Vineyard in San Benito County and from the Lost Slough vineyard in Clarksburg

He's spent the last 15 years restoring the vineyards his family purchased in 1903

forever and ever

a little stem

We taste hundreds of wines each month to bring you a fine-tuned and show-stoppingly delicious 12-pack each month

His “Rosso’ is much lighter than most other red vermouths

and his name is John Lockwood

and these bottles tend to disappear into the cellars of those who know

I was invited to a biiiig wine party

cummings poem

If it exists

400 feet in rocky red volcanic soils