Field Recordings

Andrew Jones

Talk about wine is inherently fraught with problems.  To those who drink it, words can be too mediating.  Even those who possess potent abilities at expressing wines’ delights and the potential joy that you can derive from them, can seem pedantic.  One wonders why they can’t put down the pen and get on with it? 

That said, there is still a mission for words and wine to the degree that they can aim the drinker at the wine artist, the person that provides the pleasure.  Isn’t that more to the point?

We want to share some info on the winemakers who provide the wines at Allumette.  They are like good doctors.  “I’m sick, doc, fix me”.  And they do.

Andrew Jones of Field Recordings, Fiction and Wonderwall is one such.  His realm is the Central

Coast and he knows his territory well.  I’ve had most of his wines and they are all expressive, original and incredibly reasonably priced.

The wine that speaks to me the most is his Field Recordings Chenin Blanc from Santa Ynez which we have offered at Allumette since day one. It is unfiltered and comes out a little cloudy. With this wine, it’s lack of clarity triggers in me a Pavlovian response that this wine will be special, rather than the opposite. It has everything that I want in a white wine. I can drink it with almost anything and it will have something to offer. It

has a mellow yet extracted fruit character braced with acidity

and savory flavors from the barrel but none of that pesky oak (he uses acacia barrels). Andrew’s reds are terrific and we have sold Wonderwall Pinot Noir when we can get it but the Chenin haunts me as it will you. Was this too much talk about wine?

Here are links to learn more about Andrew’s wines.

http://fieldrecordingswine.com

http://www.205food.com/best-of-November-2012/field-recordings-jurassic-p.html

http://talk-a-vino.com/tag/andrew-jones/