Field Recordings Fiction Red Wine 2022, Paso Robles, California

Field Recordings is winemaker Andrew Jones’ personal catalog of the people and places he values most. Spending his days as a vine nursery fieldman planning and planting vineyards for farmers all over California, Andrew is sometimes offered small lots of their best fruit on the side. Having stood in just about every vineyard on the Central Coast, he has a keen eye for diamonds in the rough: sites that are unknown or underappreciated but hold enormous untapped potential. The Field Recordings wines are a catalog of single vineyard sites that produces wines with a sense of place and personality. Tasting notes: Pours the color of darkest night. Heady aromas of blueberry pie, luxurious suede couches, ham paninis, unlit menthol cigarettes and roquefort tarts. Firm tannins anchor flavors of grilled meats, cherry cola, sweet carob and black licorice chews, all cased up together conveniently in a cigar humidifier. 2022 vintage – 32% Zinfandel, 22% Cabernet Franc, 15% Alicante Bouschet, 10% Charbono, 7% Syrah, 6% Lagrein, 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Grenache.