About Arnot-Roberts
Childhood friends Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts grew up together among the vineyards of 1980s Napa Valley, in families rooted in the community as chefs, coopers, teachers, and attorneys. After college, Nathan joined his father's cooperage trade while Duncan made wine at Caymus, Groth, Acacia, and Kongsgaard; in 2001 the two founded Arnot-Roberts in Healdsburg with a single barrel of Zinfandel made in a basement, releasing their first commercial vintage in 2002.
Arnot-Roberts became a defining winery of the "New California" movement, seeking cool, overlooked sites from the Sonoma Coast to the Santa Cruz Mountains and Sierra Foothills for wines of freshness and restraint, typically 12 to 13 percent alcohol, fermented whole-cluster with native yeasts and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Nathan, a second-generation cooper, personally builds every French oak barrel the winery uses, and the small allocation-list production lands on tables at The French Laundry, Eleven Madison Park, and SingleThread.
Childhood friends Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts's 2001 Healdsburg winery, a New California benchmark aged in barrels Nathan builds himself.
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Barrels built by the winemaker's own hands,co-founder Nathan Roberts, a second-generation cooper, personally constructs every French oak barrel used to age Arnot-Roberts wines.
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Started with one basement barrel,the winery began in 2001 with a single barrel of Zinfandel made in a basement by two childhood friends from Napa Valley.
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A New California standard-bearer,the winery helped define the movement toward fresher, lower-alcohol California wines, landing allocations at The French Laundry and Eleven Madison Park.
"Childhood friends Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts's 2001 Healdsburg winery, a New California benchmark aged in barrels Nathan builds himself."
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