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Arrowood’s alchemical mastery evident in cabernet – Bridgeton News

Reuniting with an old friend is always enjoyable, and doubly so when it’s with Richard Arrowood and a glass of his 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon.

Richard Arrowood began his winemaking career in the mid-1960s. In 1974, he became the winemaker and the first employee of the Sonoma County’s Chateau St. Jean. For the next decade, Arrowood created some of America’s most outstanding white wines by focusing on the innovative idea of single-vineyards like Robert Young, Belle Terre, Frank Johnson, Hunter Ranch and many more. During that period, it seemed that if the wine was white and had a Sonoma appellation, either it was made by Dick Arrowood or it wasn’t very good.

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