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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.6 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 52 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Ross Baldassaro on 3/21/2024 & rated 91 points: Very yummy old world style earthy red fruits here. I would have preferred to pull the cork sooner, to catch brighter primary fruit characters. Best to drink within 2-3 of release IMO. (81 views) | | | Tasted by Cote d'Or on 4/23/2022 flawed bottle: Corked (952 views) | | | Tasted by Ewhite30 on 9/8/2021: Fresh sea breeze, melon and citrus on the nose. Early spring strawberry, nectarine, lemon pulp , sea salt and fresh cut herbs run the palate.
A stronger vintage than the 2020, even better with the extra time in bottle. Hoping they are able to make a return to form with the next vintage. (1457 views) | | | Tasted by winemaker on 9/6/2021 & rated 90 points: Solid, light rose. 11.3% abv. A lot of tartaric acid crystals in the bottom of the bottle. I would drink these soon. I think the fruit is starting to fade a bit. (1334 views) | | | Tasted by Cote d'Or on 7/4/2021: This bottle is beautifully saline and still quite fresh. (1431 views) | | | Tasted by Cote d'Or on 6/27/2021: Has lost a little verve (1418 views) | | | Tasted by winemaker on 6/12/2021 & rated 89 points: Solid effort. Light, fresh, quaffer. Only 11.3% abv. (1167 views) | | | Tasted by Toasty Oak on 1/16/2021: Aromas of strawberry, citrus, bread dough, cotton candy, hibiscus with a bit of medicinal herbs on the finish. The wine is mouthwatering and has a silken texture. A very satisfying rose. (1352 views) | | | Tasted by Justin S on 1/4/2021 & rated 92 points: With just a little air, this was showing beautiful flavors of freshly squeezed peaches and strawberries. Not sweet tasting like it has residual sugar, but nor is it strongly acidic, mineral, or earthy. This was simply delicious and now I'm waiting on the 2020s. (1280 views) | | | Tasted by davidb18 on 9/30/2020 & rated 93 points: French style rose in CA. Improved a bit since release. (1393 views) | | | Tasted by Cote d'Or on 9/26/2020: Crisp fresh lovely, less spice than some prior vintages (1253 views) | | | Tasted by Somm David T on 9/26/2020 & rated 91 points: Paired this with Burrata, roasted garlic, garden cherry tomatoes, olive oil, pesto and Tondo balsamic with chopped pistachios for texture over crostini’s.
The nose is showing; candied, lean, strawberries, cherries, blood oranges, tangerines, raspberries, shades of black cherries, sweet rhubarb, brilliant pink rose petals with some red mixed in, vanillin, watermelon Jolly Rancher, slight herbaceousness, beautiful, saline notes, delicate chalk and sandstone minerality.
The palate palate rushes in juicy, lush and then slides in chalky powder with a slightly waxiness character & near tannin presence. You definitely sense this is made from a hearty grape varietal, like Touriga Nacional. It has beautiful viscosity. rushing cool river acidity. Candied, lean, strawberries, cherries, blood oranges, tangerines, raspberries, shades of black cherries, sweet rhubarb, brilliant pink rose petals with some red mixed in, vanillin, watermelon Jolly Rancher, slight, fresh herbaceousness, saline notes, beautiful, delicate chalk, sandstone & gripping limestone/volcanic minerality. The finish is refreshing, nicely balanced and smartly polished.
I was curious about their Rosé and wanted to try it. However, it will benefit with another one to two years in bottle. (1561 views) | | | Tasted by jgreco on 9/21/2020 & rated 91 points: This has gotten better over the summer. Solid Rosé. (1246 views) | | | Tasted by CADomer on 9/7/2020 & rated 90 points: Delicious. Great way to celebrate Labor Day. (1276 views) | | | Tasted by fred o. on 9/2/2020 & rated 91 points: Light salmon pink. Nose waxy melon and peach.
Palate some peach cream, a pronounced mineral streak. Light bodied yet at times a striking depth in mouthfeel. Overall showing very well and a notch above most cali rosés (591 views) | | | Tasted by slulkin on 8/30/2020 & rated 90 points: Similar impressions to 7/29 bottle. Enjoyed while boating with friends on a glorious late summer Sunday afternoon. (1145 views) | | | Tasted by Ewhite30 on 8/14/2020: Notes of juicy melon and peach on the nose. The wine leads melon too adding ripe red berries, apple skin and stoney minerals. As it warms there’s a creamy, vanilla note that emerges too, but it remains fresh and bright. Medium acidity. Second bottle consistent with the first, and just a good. (1041 views) | | | Tasted by Justin S on 8/7/2020 & rated 91 points: Similar to last time, with lots of peach, watermelon, and lemon pith notes. But on the nose, I'm getting a very distinct smell of bubblicious or big league chew, perhaps a touch of mint like another note here mentioned, and baked peaches. Pretty wild! I don't recall another vintage being this aromatic, but this is also the first time I served it in a burgundy glass. Weightless but tons of flavor, really nice. Let this warm up a bit as it's a bit thin out of the fridge. (1153 views) | | | Tasted by arthrovine on 8/2/2020: We drank this with a few Szechuan dishes and the peppercorn was an amazing pairing with this rose. A revelation. Wow (1262 views) | | | Tasted by slulkin on 7/29/2020 & rated 90 points: Nose of peaches, melon, hints of mint and a bit of minerality. Palate is silky and clean with a slightly astringent finish. Another enjoyable year for AR rose. (1196 views) | | | Tasted by mynamesjd on 7/26/2020 & rated 90 points: Great Rose. Pleasant salinity throughout. Some stone fruit, mostly cherry, and light spice when it opens. (1102 views) | | | Tasted by Stephie B on 7/25/2020: loved this rose, aromas of apricot, pluot, baked pastry and honey
never had wine from this grape varietals, v interesting indeed, great color of blush dusty salmon (859 views) | | | Tasted by M.Batard on 7/12/2020 & rated 91 points: This is good stuff. Drank right after an actual Portuguese Rose (Lago Cerqueira, with indeterminate varietals—but surely T.N.??). This was v good: pale copper-pink, complex melon and other fruit flavors, dry & minerally palate. More, please! (1324 views) | | | Tasted by magyarsvensk on 7/7/2020 & rated 93 points: Strawberry patch, green apple, cotton candy.
Best showing thus far. Subtle but complex. Great texture. (1265 views) | | | Tasted by jgreco on 7/3/2020 & rated 91 points: The 2019 Arnot-Roberts Rosé Touriga Nacional is pale salmon in color. The nose is filled with melon and tropical fruits. Light bodied, bright, and at 11.3% alcohol, super easy to drink on a hot summer day. Initially, the wine was a bit thing, I found that it filled out with 2 hours of air and was still going strong 6 hours after opening. Consider waiting until late summer to drink. (1324 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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| Arnot-Roberts Producer Website
Jamie Kutch left a highly paid career as a stock trader in 2005 to move to California and pursue his dream of making wine. People thought he was crazy, until the first Pinot Noir he released scored 93 points in Wine Spectator. That shouldn't come as a surprise as Jamie has cut his teeth among some of the best producers in the Pinot Noir world. From his time spent working at the revered Kosta Browne in Sonoma to receiving sage advice from none other than Aubert de Villaine of Domaine de la Romanee Conti, Jamie has taken everything he has learned to produce some of the most compelling and terroir driven wines in California.
The Kutch wines are made as naturally as possible. After the grapes are harvested by hand, they are sorted meticulously and moved only by gravity, before being fermented in small open-top containers with hand and foot punch downs using indigenous yeasts. When fermented, the wine is gravity flowed into French Oak barrels, where they age sur lie (on the lees). The vineyard pursues a minimalist philosophy, trying to produce the purest expression of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from a particular place and time.
Since foundation 2001, Arnot-Roberts has been one of the most progressive and revolutionary producers on the California landscape. Initially their focus was just on making great Californian wines, but when the cool 2005 vintage gave them wines in a more austere, high acid style than the region was used to, Nathan and Duncan reacted completely differently to practically everyone else in California – they loved them and decided to pursue lower ripeness levels and higher acidity in all of their wines henceforth.
The intent is to produce wines that express the character of the sites in which the grapes are grown. No vineyards are owned. Fruit was sourced by arrangements with farmers from prime sites in Napa, the Sonoma Coast, the Santa Cruz Mountains, the Santa Rita Hills, Moon Mountain and the Sierra Foothills. The focus is on single vineyards, but some regional / appellation wines are also made if the grapes show strong association with their origins. The common thread is that most of the fruit is sourced from cooler vineyard sites.
Touriga Nacional Varietal character (Appellation America) | Wikipedia
Touriga Nacional is the foundation for many port wines. It's a hearty, thick-skinned red grape with moderate acidity, firm tannins, and black fruit character.Rosé Rosé - WikipediaUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson CaliforniaNapa Valley.http://www.stagecoachvineyard.com/vineyards/our_vineyards.php
Santa Ynez.http://www.everyvine.com/org/Camp_Four/vineyard/Camp_Four/ |
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