Field Recordings About Time Organic Merlot 2023 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine The Chardonnay grows on clay

The Chardonnay grows on clay and limestone

and old-vine Zinfandel is its beating heart

launched in 1992 and still made in the same cellars by the same team behind the flagship wines

a clay-rich amphitheater of a site that gives the wine its red-berry lift and its bones

2010 was a classically styled vintage in Burgundy

Field Recordings About Time Organic Merlot 2023 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine The Chardonnay grows on clayField Recordings is Andrew Jones's Paso Robles project by day he's a vine nursery fieldman who walks every corner of the Central Coast, and on the side he turns small lots from overlooked vineyards into wines that always overdeliver. About Time is the organic certified value tier, and the Merlot makes a strong case that the grape deserves a comeback. From a single estate vineyard, fermented in open top tanks, aged briefly in stainless and neutral oak