Arnot-Roberts, Cabernet Sauvignon Fellom Ranch Santa Cruz, 2010 CS20230611 If you want to understand

If you want to understand what Croatian Istria can do with its indigenous red

The 2021 vintage displays a garnet red color with a vibrant nose of crushed red fruit and fresh strawberry jam layered with licorice and bay leaf

with some vines pushing 50 to 100 years old

such as clove and cinnamon

more classically proportioned vintage than the powerful 2010

Arnot-Roberts, Cabernet Sauvignon Fellom Ranch Santa Cruz, 2010 CS20230611 If you want to understandArnot Roberts helped redefine what California Cabernet could taste like, and this bottle from a ridgetop vineyard near the top of Monte Bello Road shows why they earned a near cult following. Fellom Ranch sits at roughly 2,200 feet in the Santa Cruz Mountains, on a complex mosaic of Franciscan chert, sandy loam, clay, and serpentine that lends real structure and site character. Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts work in a restrained, elegant