The first in a January series on "Winemakers to Watch", the San Francisco Chronicle profiles Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Roberts, the men behind Arnot-Roberts wines.
"Their Arnot-Roberts wines can be defined by almost daringly low alcohol levels, sometimes shy of 13 percent. This approach can be extreme - at 11.5 percent, their 2008 Clary Ranch Syrah might strike some as anemic - but typically their gambles at the low end of the Brix scale pay off with dazzling expression. Even their dramatic 2008 Syrah from Hudson Vineyard, the Carneros site famous for its hard-hitting designates, landed at 12.5 percent." Read the full article here.
