Enfield Wine Co. Napa Valley Chardonnay Watson Ranch 2021 070226CRISP select Bulleit Bourbon barrels were

select Bulleit Bourbon barrels were set aside to age for 10 years

Fine-tuned tannins create a silky smooth framework for the elegant layers of cassis

not fussed over

then emptied and returned to our distillery where we fill them up again with straight rye whiskey

Enfield Wine Co. Napa Valley Chardonnay Watson Ranch 2021 070226CRISP select Bulleit Bourbon barrels wereWatson 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,