Field Recordings - Salad Days Pet Nat California NV 750ml (11.1% abv)
crushable blend of Colombard, Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc & Why Salad Days? Short answer, because it's flavors are green & fresh. Long answer, at just 11% abv, some days, you just need a salad
Salad Days is super bright & fresh - on the nose it's all about crisp pear, green apple, lemon & green herbs - the palate is light & refreshing with a soft kiss of Pet Nat bubbles. As a point of reference, if you enjoy bright white wines with lively acidity & some verve... It's the perfect breakfast, brunch, lunch, aperitif wine.
sourced from vineyards throughout California. Super fresh with notes of lychee, gooseberry, and pomme fruits with a grassy top note. A perfect picnic pet nat.
INGREDIENTS // ORGANIC WINE GRAPES AND
SPARKLING YEAST
VARIETAL // A SPARKLING WHITE WINE MADE FROM
ORGANIC GRAPES
APPELLATION // CALIFORNIA
ÉLEVAGE // FERMENTED IN STAINLESS STEEL FOR
45 DAYS TO PRESERVE FRESH AND TROPICAL FLAVORS
TASTING NOTES // GOOSEBERRY,
BARTLETT PEARS
PAIRINGS // FANCY CHEESE, ROASTED CHICKEN,
SMOKED FISH
SUSTAINABLE
VEGAN
NO ADDITIVES
NATIVE YEAST
ONLY NATURALLY OCCURRING SULFITES
Field Recordings is, as winemaker Andrew Jones puts it, a “personal catalog of the people and places he values most”. The winery originally started as his hobby project in 2007 – working for a vine nursery planning and planting vineyards for farmers all over California made Jones familiar with a vast array of exciting viticultural sites, and the idea of making a small batch of wine himself quickly came along. “The nursery work is rather quiet during fall so I had some time on my hands… I’d made wine in college, then got to know all these diverse Central Coast vineyards from working with the growers,” Andrew explains how the jigsaw fell into place back then. “It was a good way to connect with my customers and get a deeper understanding of their work – I definitely feel that being a winemaker made me a better nurseryman and vice versa, being a nurseryman made me a better winemaker.”
The project has since spiraled into a pretty substantial operation – Andrew still makes smaller batches of various single-vineyard wines, but an equally big focus of his Paso Roble winery & now 12-strong team is placed on their blends. Field Recordings is known for its sparkling wine production – Salad Days, their Colombard-based traditional method blend, is popular with Whole Foods and other customers looking for an affordable organic sparkler; as for the primary fermented wines, “Field Recordings might be the largest producer of pet-nat in California nowadays,” according to Andrew.
On the still front, there’s Skins, “the gateway orange wine – I always say we make wines for the drinking experience rather than the tasting experience, something that can be enjoyed by a whole group of people, without being too esoteric,” Andrew says. Fiction shows a similar approach in red – this “snapshot of what the Paso Robles area can do” is more about keeping the flavor profile and less about seasonality, which is where Jones’ knowledge of where to look for a certain type and style of grapes among all the different growers comes very much in handy.
The wines are all native primary ferments and see no additives save for a bit of sulfur post-malolactic fermentation and then before bottling. Andrew tries to keep these very low too – by filtering the wine or by changing the closure from screwcap to cork (the screw-cap bottles hold more oxygen above the wine and hence usually require higher levels of SO2 to protect the wine), he generally manages to use around 40ppm of SO2 throughout the process.
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