Arnot-Roberts Napa Valley Ribolla Gialla Bengier Vineyard 2023 042326OFFER this sake is more subtle

this sake is more subtle and nuanced than most highly aromatic Junmai Daiginjos

Big Orange is the producer's one-liter take on orange wine — California white grapes macerated on their skins for color

and fine-grained without the heaviness you might fear

and it's finished dry

Many of these bush vines are 60 to 120 years old

Arnot-Roberts Napa Valley Ribolla Gialla Bengier Vineyard 2023 042326OFFER this sake is more subtleRibolla 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