Arietta H Block Hudson Vineyard Red 2011

Other Red Blends from Napa Valley, California

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Arietta H Block Hudson Vineyard Red 2011 Front Label

Product Details

Varietal

Other Red Blends

Region

Napa Valley, California

Producer

Arietta

Vintage

2011

Size

750ML

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Winemaker Notes

The 2011 Arietta Red Wine H Block Hudson Vineyards, Arietta's "eldest child" and best known red wine, returns to the fold after a year-long sabbatical. Beginning with the 2011 vintage, Merlot from the adjacent Hudson I Block joins the Cabernet Francfrom our celebrated H Block on the Hudson Ranch on the Napa side of Carneros, and provides an especially juicy core to the wine. We welcomed the H Block's new Merlot partner by making a wine that is 54% Merlot and 46% Cabernet Franc – the first reverse blend for the H Block since 2001. The ethereal aromatics of the H BlockCabernet Franc in late and cool vintages such as 2011 are legendary, as those lucky enough to have experienced the 1998 and 2000 vintages can attest. The Merlot from the Hudson I Block, to which Arietta moved in 2010 after the uprooting of our NBlock, has proved to be a perfect partner to the H Block Franc, with its immediately adjacent location, greater degree of slope, and slightly warmer exposure.

Blend: 46% Cabernet Franc, 54% Merlot

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Arietta Winemaker Andy Erickson Winery Image

The Arietta project is owned and run by the Kongsgaard and Hatton families. John Kongsgaard, winemaker, is a fifth generation Napan, but the first in his family to make wine. Kongsgaard has grown grapes since 1975 and made wine professionally since 1979, notably for thirteen vintages at Newton and five at Luna, as well as looking after numerous clients as a viticultural and enological consultant. Since founding Arietta and Kongsgaard in 1996, he has limited wine production to that which he can make with his own hands. In 2000, Kongsgaard stopped all consulting activities, devoting himself solely to twenty-eight acres of vineyard and the resulting Arietta and Kongsgaard wines.

Fritz Hatton is the nation's foremost wine auctioneer. He worked for Christie's for most of the last two decades and was in charge of Christie's U.S. wine auctions from 1995 to 1998. In the spring of 2002, Hatton joined the prominent retailer, Zachy's, as auctioneer and consultant to Zachy's Auctions, Inc. He serves as principal auctioneer for the Napa Valley Wine Auction and conducts numerous other charity wine auctions across the U.S. Hatton is responsible for the sales and distribution of the Arietta and Kongsgaard wines and shares the marketing duties with Kongsgaard.

The partners came together through their love of music. Fritz is a serious amateur pianist and singer, and the Kongsgaards present a ten concert classical music series in Napa. Their friendship in music is reflected in the Arietta wine label: Beethoven's manuscript of the sublime Arietta movement of his last piano sonata, Opus 111.

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Napa Valley Red Wine

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Undoubtedly proving its merit over and over, Napa Valley is a now a leading force in the world of prestigious red wine regions. Though Cabernet Sauvignon dominates Napa Valley, other red varieties certainly thrive here. Important but often overlooked include Merlot and other Bordeaux varieties well-regarded on their own as well as for their blending capacities. Very old vine Zinfandel represents an important historical stronghold for the region and Pinot noir is produced in the cooler southern parts, close to the San Pablo Bay.

Perfectly situated running north to south, the valley acts as a corridor, pulling cool, moist air up from the San Pablo Bay in the evenings during the hot days of the growing season, which leads to even and slow grape ripening. Furthermore the valley claims over 100 soil variations including layers of volcanic, gravel, sand and silt—a combination excellent for world-class red wine production.

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