Arnot-Roberts Napa Valley Ribolla Gialla Bengier Vineyard 2023 CRV10 and the wine is built

and the wine is built in their honor: no pretense

Bernard-Bonin is a tiny Meursault domaine that has rocketed into the conversation among connoisseurs in the past few years

Mike Lucia put some in the ground at Cole Ranch

working native grapes with organic and biodynamic farming and a deliberately hands-off cellar

Arnot-Roberts Napa Valley Ribolla Gialla Bengier Vineyard 2023 CRV10 and the wine is builtRibolla Gialla is a Friulian white grape almost unheard of outside Italy, brought to Napa in 2001 from cuttings of Josko Gravner's famous vineyard and planted at the foot of Mt. Veeder. The block now owned by the Bengier family and farmed meticulously by Steve Matthiasson sits on deep alluvial gravelly clay loam in densely planted rows, with vine to vine competition encouraged. Arnot Roberts ferments it cleanly (no skin contact here) and ages it in