Arnot-Roberts Carmel Valley Pinot Noir Fox Creek 2024 QUANTITY CHECK Their Oro de Castilla bottling

Their Oro de Castilla bottling comes from organically grown vines planted between 1989 and 2009 on limestone covered with river stones and sand at nearly 2

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Arnot-Roberts Carmel Valley Pinot Noir Fox Creek 2024 QUANTITY CHECK Their Oro de Castilla bottlingDuncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts have a near cult following for singularly graceful, genuinely cool climate wines, and Fox Creek is exactly the kind of vineyard their reputation is built on. Sitting at 1,100 feet on a remote ridge above Carmel Valley in Monterey County, planted in 2006 to Dijon 667 and 115 in granodiorite clay loam, with steady Pacific influence pulling temperatures down at night, it is the sort of site Arnot Roberts hunts