2024 Field Recordings Ouille Savagnin Blanc

Technically, our Savagnin is on its second release, but this is the first vintage we have enough to offer our wine club. We only had 2 barrels from the 2023 vintage, so only a few of you got to try this one. Savaginin is a relative to the Gewurztraminer family, but it makes a wine more like Chardonnay. And not that big, heavy, creamy type of Chard — it’s the super bright, high-acid type you typically find from European producers. The grapes are sustainably farmed down on the SLO Coast at Greengate Farms in San Luis Obispo. 

Super simple process behind this one: We pick it at the right balance of sugar and acidity, then whole cluster press the grapes to neutral barrels that we let run wild. The three-year-old vineyard yielded a mere 16 barrels on this special grape.