Arietta Wines

Arietta Wines is a super-premium Napa Valley wine producer specializing in site-specific Bordeaux-style blends. The wines are produced with fruit from carefully selected blocks within some of Napa Valley's best cool-climate vineyards, and are given names that relate to music, like On The White Keys, Quartet and Variation One. Since 2005, the wines have been made by consulting winemaker Andy Erickson, who is linked to notable Napa Valley wineries including Screaming Eagle, Staglin and Dalla Valle.

The estate was founded in 1996, and the first wine was produced from a mere hectare (2.3 acres) of Cabernet Franc from Hudson Vineyards' H Block in Carneros. Arietta now sources fruit from additional blocks of Hudson Vineyards for production of Variation One, a blend of Merlot and Syrah, and Cabernet Sauvignon from small parcels in Howell Mountain and Coombsville has gone into Arietta's largest production wine, Quartet, since 2003.

In 2005, Arietta produced its first and only white wine, On The White Keys, made from Sauvignon Blanc grown on hillsides in Sonoma Mountain and old-vine Sémillon from Hyde Vineyards in Carneros. The wines' labels all feature the manuscript of renowned classical composer Beethoven's Arietta movement from Opus 111, his last Piano Sonata.