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Arkenstone Estate

Napa Valley / Howell Mountain · Howell Mountain AVA
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Hours
By appointment only
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Phone
(707) 965-2676
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Tasting Fee
From $85
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Reservations
Required
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Est.
2002

About Arkenstone Estate

Susan and Ron Krauss's 2002 Howell Mountain biodynamic estate — named for the Tolkien gemstone of perfect beauty, Arkenstone produces estate Howell Mo

Arkenstone Estate is the most literarily named and biodynamically principled luxury wine estate on Howell Mountain.

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Arkenstone Estate isArkenstone Estate is the most literarily named and biodynamically principled luxury wine estate on Howell Mountain.
Susan and RonSusan and Ron Krauss — who named the estate for the Arkenstone, the magnificent gemstone in J.R.R.
Tolkien's The HobbitTolkien's The Hobbit whose beauty represents the pinnacle of what can be created from the natural world — purchased the Sage Canyon Road Howell Mountain property in 2002 with a vision of producing Cabernet Sauvignon of equivalent gemstone-quality perfection from the volcanic terrain above the Napa Valley fog line.
"Susan and Ron Krauss's 2002 Howell Mountain biodynamic estate — named for the Tolkien gemstone of perfect beauty, Arkens"
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Featured Wines

Cabernet Sauvignon
Obsidian Cabernet Sauvignon
Howell Mountain / Arkenstone Estate
Arkenstone's most volcanically named flagship — Obsidian Howell Mountain Cabernet from biodynamic volcanic basalt and rhyolite estate terrain consistently earning 93–97 points for the natural concentration and structural depth that the Tolkien-gemstone-named estate's biodynamic conviction extracts from volcanic Howell Mountain above the fog line.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Arkenstone Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Howell Mountain / Arkenstone Estate
The Tolkien-named estate flagship — Arkenstone Howell Mountain Cabernet from biodynamically farmed volcanic terrain earning 94–98 points from Wine Advocate for the most literarily ambitious and biodynamically principled Howell Mountain luxury Cabernet expression, named for the gemstone of perfect natural beauty in Tolkien's Hobbit.
Estate
★★★★☆
Sauvignon Blanc
Estate Sauvignon Blanc
Howell Mountain / Arkenstone Estate
Arkenstone's mountain white — biodynamic Howell Mountain Sauvignon Blanc from volcanic estate terrain above the fog line showing the crisp, mineral, food-first character that biodynamic farming and high-elevation volcanic soils consistently produce in this Loire variety as the most naturally farmed and gemstone-philosophy-consistent white wine in the Arkenstone Howell Mountain program.
Estate
★★★★☆

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Tolkien Gemstone Biodynamic Appointment
Appointment at the most Tolkien-literarily named and biodynamically principled Howell Mountain luxury estate — Obsidian and Arkenstone estate Cabernet at 93–98 points from biodynamic volcanic terrain above the fog line. The most gemstone-philosophy and literary-ambition-inspired appointment available on Howell Mountain.
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