Enfield Wine Co. Napa Valley Chardonnay Watson Ranch 2021 champagne-club now 130-plus years old

now 130-plus years old

A compelling expression of terroir-driven winemaking from a respected Beaujolais producer

Thomas Hine himself arrived in Jarnac during the French Revolution in 1791

It is distinctively dosed with concentrated grape must rather than cane sugar

Tightly grained French oak nuance and fruit driven intensity add weight and power as the wine continues to drive forward

Enfield Wine Co. Napa Valley Chardonnay Watson Ranch 2021 champagne-club now 130-plus years oldWatson Ranch is one of those quietly important California vineyards that the cognoscenti chase but the general public has never heard of. It sits in Coombsville, in the cool southern corner of Napa, above an old limestone quarry whose stone helped rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. The same site supplies Arnot Roberts, among others. John Lockwood of Enfield farms 30 plus year old vines here and makes the Chardonnay in a precise, mineral,