Arnot-Roberts Carmel Valley Pinot Noir Fox Creek 2024 QUANTITY CHECK unpretentious Burgundy—the kind of wine

unpretentious Burgundy—the kind of wine you open on a Tuesday night and feel genuinely good about

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

and this Pineau d'Aunis comes from old vines (some over a century) farmed by Valerie Forgues

Lynch-Bages 2021 is one of the bigger

Fermentation is spontaneous

Arnot-Roberts Carmel Valley Pinot Noir Fox Creek 2024 QUANTITY CHECK unpretentious Burgundy—the kind of wineDuncan 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