A crisp orange wine perfect to pair with spicy foods, springtime and ... well, anything. The 2017 vintage of this wine landed them on Sunset Magazine’s top 100 wines list. It will make you a believer in non-red wines. They use a mix of white grapes from different vineyards that they destem and ferment on skins, resulting in a beautiful showcase of all the delicate flavors of white wine, but with more substance and texture.

• Tasting Notes: Apricot, Haitian Orange, Marzipan
• Pairings: Bleu cheese, Duck sausage, dried fruit
• Appellation: Central Coast
• Alcohol: 12.1%

Field Recordings is winemaker Andrew Jones’ personal catalog of the people and places he values most. Their wines are all about the flavor — with none of the pretension.

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’s all about finding those underdogs with untapped potential. As friendships are made and opportunities are embraced, Andrew produces small quantities of soulful wine from these unusual, quiet vineyards.

They offer single-vineyard wines with a sense of place and personality, as well as delightful blends under their Wonderwall and Fiction projects. These bottles are good enough to save for a special occasion … but we’re a laidback crew, so don’t feel bad about putting one back on a Tuesday night.