Field Recordings Pet Nat Sparkling Rose

Andrew Jones spent his early career as a vine nursery fieldman, planting vineyards for farmers across California — which means he knows where all the good, recondite, slightly weird fruit is hiding. His Field Recordings Pét-Nat Rosé is the delicious result of that knowledge: old-vine Cabernet Franc that’s too low in sugar to make a proper red wine but — as Andrew understood — is absolutely perfect for sparkling, given six hours of skin contact for its gorgeous rosy hue, then blended with Chardonnay and Molinara and bottled mid-fermentation so the natural bubbles develop in bottle the old-fashioned way. The result is hazy, alive, lightly fizzy and completely irresistible — wild strawberry, raspberry, lemon zest and a minerally freshness that makes it equally at home at brunch, a picnic, a dinner party or a Tuesday evening when nothing else seems quite right. At 11% alcohol it is bibulously guilt-free. Cold, preferably. Immediately, definitely.