Arietta Napa Valley H Block Hudson Vineyard 2018 NO20230712 highlighting the three successive regimes:

highlighting the three successive regimes: since the Napoleonic era

Their berries are fruity in flavor but also distinctively spicy

The standard for many a Negroni or Manhattan recipe

This very spicy bitter miraculously never masks

Arietta Napa Valley H Block Hudson Vineyard 2018 NO20230712 highlighting the three successive regimes:H Block is where Arietta started, the very first bottling in 1996, and still the estate's flagship homage to the Right Bank of Bordeaux. It's a Cabernet Franc driven blend (56% Cabernet Franc, 44% Merlot) from a single site: the famed Hudson Vineyard in Carneros, where the Franc grows on a volcanic outcrop and the Merlot in clay loam, both planted in 1986. Aged in new French oak and bottled unfiltered, the 2018 is a wine of real perfume and depth. Now