Arnot-Roberts helped write the playbook for the “New California”: restrained, high-acid, low-oak wines that reach back to the state’s pre-blockbuster era. This Chardonnay comes from one of the coast’s most storied sites, Sanford & Benedict in the Sta. Rita Hills, where own-rooted Wente-clone vines were planted in 1971, ten miles from the Pacific and battered by wind. Fermented with wild yeast and raised in neutral oak and steel, it’s all about tension and transparency, not toast. The result is elegant, mineral, and cool to its core.