Arnot-Roberts Napa Valley Ribolla Gialla Bengier Vineyard 2023 Jura and Savoie Almost nobody makes a Valpolicella

Almost nobody makes a Valpolicella like this: seven years in large Slavonian oak casks before release

texture & chisled minerality

This one comes off vines planted in the late 1800s and ferments spontaneously in stainless steel: a perfumed

and built for transparency rather than weight

Arnot-Roberts Napa Valley Ribolla Gialla Bengier Vineyard 2023 Jura and Savoie Almost nobody makes a ValpolicellaRibolla 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