Field Recordings

Field Recordings Wonderwall Pinot Noir 2024

$30.00

Style: Dry, light-to-medium-bodied red; tart and fruit-forward with soft tannins, medium acidity, and a gentle spiced finish
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Pinot Noir; Edna Valley AVA, San Luis Obispo County, Central Coast, California; cool coastal climate with morning fog and afternoon ocean breezes moderating ripeness
Winemaking: Hand-harvested slightly before peak ripeness; partially destemmed with 15-35% stem inclusion; native yeast fermentation; aged in 100% French oak, 15% new
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 55-60°F; no decanting needed; works well with a slight chill
Pairing: Duck confit
Similar to: Entry-level Willamette Valley Pinot Noir, lighter Santa Barbara Pinot Noir, everyday Bourgogne Rouge

Field Recordings Wonderwall Pinot Noir 2024 is a dry red wine made by winemaker Andrew Jones. The grapes are 100% Pinot Noir from the Edna Valley AVA in San Luis Obispo County, sourced from a cool coastal site that Andrew got to know through his day job as a vine nursery fieldman. Picked slightly before peak ripeness to hold onto the tart cherry character, the fruit arrives partially destemmed with 15-35% whole stems included, depending on the vineyard block, and is fermented with native yeasts. Field Recordings Wonderwall Pinot Noir 2024 is aged in 100% French oak with 15% new barrels at 12.9% ABV.

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Field Recordings Wonderwall Pinot Noir 2024

$30.00

Producer profile

Field Recordings

Field Recordings is Andrew Jones' personal wine label, which he describes as a catalog of the people and places he cares most about. He founded it in 2007 in Paso Robles, initially as a hobby project with a very small first batch, and has since grown it into one of the more recognizable names in California's low-intervention wine scene, with its own land and reportedly the largest pét-nat production operation in the state.

Andrew got into winemaking sideways. His day job, held for over twenty years, has been as a vine nursery fieldman, planning and planting vineyards for growers all over the Central Coast. That work put him in contact with virtually every serious vineyard in the region, and over time he began noticing certain sites that struck him as genuinely interesting but overlooked: rocky, wilder spots, often closer to the Pacific, farmed carefully by clients who had become friends. When those growers offered him small lots of their best fruit, he started making wine from it. That is still basically how Field Recordings works.

The Wonderwall range was built around those coastal, hard-to-find sites specifically. While the broader Field Recordings portfolio includes the Fiction red blend, pét-nats, piquette, canned wines under Alloy Wine Works, and various single-vineyard bottlings, Wonderwall focuses on cool-climate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Andrew's most interesting coastal sources. The house style for Wonderwall involves picking slightly before full ripeness, partial stem inclusion, and aging in French oak with a modest percentage of new wood.

Andrew's long-term ambition is to establish an organically certified vine nursery, which would bring his two professional worlds together in one place. His partner Emily helps with label design across the portfolio, which tends toward bold, graphic, slightly irreverent visuals that match the general tone of the winery: serious about what's in the bottle, relaxed about everything around it.

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Wine region

California, United States

Edna Valley is a small AVA in San Luis Obispo County on California's Central Coast, located just south of the city of San Luis Obispo and roughly 4 miles from the Pacific Ocean. The valley runs roughly northwest to southeast, and that orientation funnels cold marine air from Morro Bay directly into the vineyards from late morning onward, making it one of the coolest wine-growing areas on the entire California coast. The fog that builds overnight typically burns off by mid-morning, but the afternoon breeze returns quickly, keeping temperatures moderate even at the height of summer. The result is a growing season that is long, slow, and well suited to cool-climate varieties like Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

The valley floor sits at roughly 160-330 ft above sea level, flanked by low hills that protect the vineyards from severe coastal weather while still allowing the temperature-moderating influence of the ocean to dominate the climate. Soils are predominantly clay and sandy loam over volcanic and marine sedimentary rock, with good natural drainage despite the valley's relatively flat topography. The volcanic influence from the nearby Irish Hills and the region's ancient geology contribute a mineral character that shows up in the better wines from here.

Edna Valley was formally recognized as an AVA in 1982. The region has a small number of producers relative to its reputation, partly because the dominant landholdings here have historically been large. Chardonnay, planted extensively beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, remains the most widely grown variety, but Pinot Noir has been gaining ground steadily as producers recognize the valley's suitability for the variety's characteristic balance of red fruit, acidity, and silky structure. The Wonderwall Pinot Noir is sourced from one of the sites in the valley that Andrew Jones identified early in his career as a nursery fieldman, when he was mapping vineyards across the Central Coast before most of the wine world had paid much attention to them.

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