Arietta Napa Valley Red H Block Hudson Vineyard 2017 ROSSCELLAR with boysenberry

with boysenberry

and more precise

and a vibrant and long mineral tinged finish

This realization led him to Alsace to study organic viticulture

Arietta Napa Valley Red H Block Hudson Vineyard 2017 ROSSCELLAR with boysenberryH Block is Arietta's flagship, and the core Cabernet Franc comes from one tiny, shy bearing spot: a volcanic, southwest facing slope in the Hudson Vineyard in Carneros, one of the New World's finest places to grow Cabernet Franc, with Merlot from adjacent Hudson blocks. The estate was founded in 1996 by John Kongsgaard and Fritz Hatton, with winemaking from Andy Erickson. The 2017 is a roughly even split of Cabernet Franc and Merlot, co fermented,