Arnot Roberts 2023 Chardonnay Watson Ranch, Napa Valley

Winery Notes: The Watson Ranch vineyard is perched on a steep hillside overlooking San Pablo Bay at the southernmost end of the Napa Valley. The vineyard can be seen on the top of the hill just east of the Green Island Vineyard where we sourced fruit from 2007-09. Exposed and austere, the Watson Ranch is a wind-whipped site planted in 1993 by the talented grower Salvador Ramos on marine deposits over limestone. This soil type is extremely rare on the North Coast and lends itself perfectly to growing world-class Chardonnay. This soil coupled with organic farming techniques and cool windy conditions gives this parcel great potential to produce Chardonnay of a singular character.”