Arnot-Roberts
Benchmark Sonoma Coast, made naturally since 2001.
Founded in 2001 by childhood friends Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts. Among the first to chase a fresher, lower-alcohol California: earlier picking, less new oak, less ripeness.
Cool, high, and coastal sites across the North Coast, including dry-farmed and own-rooted vineyards. Fruit is picked early to hold acidity and lift, and farmed for naturally low yields.
Native-yeast fermentations with generous whole cluster, aged in neutral French oak so the site shows through, not the cellar. Low intervention, and the wines are built to age.
Small allocations each vintage: three single-vineyard Cabernets (Fellom Ranch, Montecillo, Clajeux) and two cool-site Syrahs. The Que Syrah Vineyard bottling is just eight barrels.
The wines
5 releases available now
Cabernet Sauvignon, Fellom Ranch 2023
From a 2,200-foot ridgetop above Silicon Valley. Old cane-pruned vines on low-nutrient soils, naturally low yields, fermented with partial whole cluster.
Cabernet Sauvignon, Montecillo Vineyard 2023
One of Sonoma's oldest Cabernet plantings, own-rooted since 1964 on the ridge above the Valley of the Moon. Rocky soils and tiny, concentrated berries.
Cabernet Sauvignon, Clajeux Vineyard 2023
Cabernet off fourteen rows on a steep volcanic hillside in Chalk Hill. Native-yeast ferment, aged in French oak coopered by Nathan Roberts.
Syrah, Que Syrah Vineyard 2024
The oldest Syrah planting on the Sonoma Coast, three miles from the Pacific. Native yeasts, 100% whole cluster, only eight barrels made.
Syrah, Clary Ranch 2024
Their coldest Syrah site, near Tomales Bay. Dry-farmed, 100% whole cluster, native yeasts, aged in neutral French oak.
Build a cellar around the classics.
Two cool-site Syrahs and three single-vineyard Cabernets, alongside the rest of our serious bottles.