2016 Arneis and Friends

This is our fourth vintage working with this special little planting of Arneis from Dragoon Mountain Vineyard. While we love working with this grape, this tiny block (only ~1/3 of an acre) doesn’t yield a lot of fruit, and in tougher years, we barely get enough to make a single barrel of this wine. 2016 was especially rough, yielding only about 50 gallons and forcing us to blend just to fill a barrel! This wine still has the same great texture and classic Arneis pear/apple fruit accented with a little spice and aromatics from Verdelho and even more texture from the Viognier.