MEMBERS ONLY
Winter Bubbles Club
Introducing our new sparkling selections, just in time for the holidays. Below, you’ll find everything you need to know — important dates, a post-harvest letter from Andrew, and the story behind each bottle.
Dates to know.
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11/5: Customization window opens
Log into your account to customize your order. You can add or swap between the club selections, and don’t forget to add a case (or two!) of our large-production wines for just $180. To make further edits or add non-club wines, please email club@fieldrecordingswine.com.
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11/19: Cards charged
All customizations must be completed on 11/18. Cards are automatically charged at midnight on 11/19. After this time, we can’t make any changes to your order, pickup/shipping preference, or address, so please double check everything!
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12/2: Orders ship
Your wines will leave our warehouse and head to their final destination (you!) via UPS. Want to ship your wine to a UPS location? Email club@fieldrecordingswine.com & we’ll help you out.
Are you making the most of your membership?
Here’s a reminder of your perks (and a couple of new ones)…
All November long: Use your membership at MCV Wines. MCV is offering tastings for 6 people and 20% off.
All December long: Use your membership at Ella’s Vineyard and receive complimentary tastings for 4 people and 20% off purchases.
Hotel discounts: Access up to 15% off our favorite local stays! Explore our hotel partners.
$180 cases: You can purchase discounted solid cases of our large-production favorites all year, but it’s even easier during club! Just log in, edit your order, and add a case.
’Tis the season…
Harvest is complete. Our harvest interns are starting to pack to get home for Thanksgiving, and we’re prepping the winery for winter. For all of us here at Field Recordings, it’s time to slow down and recover — that means spending a little less time in Tin City, and preparing for more quality time at home.
When we started the Bubbles Club, we wanted the shipment to hit your doorstep right when you’re getting into the swing of things during the holiday season. There’s no better companion for your next gathering than a few special bottles of bubbles, perfect for sharing with friends and family.
We have three great sparkling selections to share with you this year.
2024 OUILLE //
2024 OUILLE //
100% SAVAGNIN
$35 REGULAR / $28 BOTTLE CLUB
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.
2024 SIGNIFICANT OTHER //
2024 SIGNIFICANT OTHER //
100% ALIGOTÉ
$35 REGULAR / $28 BOTTLE CLUB
Significant Other is made with Aligoté farmed at the Orcutt Road Ranch in San Luis Obispo. Largely unknown internationally, Aligoté is the “other” white grape farmed in Burgundy. Known for a blast of fresh citrus flavors, this medium-bodied grape is having a major resurgence as growers look for varieties that can thrive in our extreme coastal vineyards. We only yielded 6 barrels of the three-year-old vineyard this past year, and although the vines are super young, we’re very optimistic you’ll be seeing this one from us for a while.
2023 NINE BALL //
2023 NINE BALL //
65% GROS MANSENG, 35% PETIT MANSENG
$35 REGULAR / $28 BOTTLE CLUB
This is a blend of the two white grapes farmed historically just on the French side of the Pyrenees: Petit Manseng and Gros Manseng. Both hold their acid very well. We essentially have to wait until the end of the season to harvest them, otherwise we might get complaints of damaging everyone’s tooth enamel. Petit gets super ripe too! We can have 18%+ potential alcohols with acidity levels higher than Champagne. The Gros luckily brings the alcohol level down substantially, but we still need to arrest the fermentation and leave a slight amount of residual sugar to alleviate the sting of the wild acidity. We call this one Nine Ball because this oddball grape just doesn't make sense! Trust us though, if you only stick with the drier wines typically, this one will surprise you. Take this one down to your favorite Thai joint upon arrival.
2023 KOLIGIAN //
2023 KOLIGIAN //
FIELD BLEND
$55 REGULAR / $44 BOTTLE CLUB
A pair of 2023 Koligian bottles will round out this fall’s allocation. In 2023, the cool season was just perfect for those dry-farmed vines: No rush to pick things, and the acids fell in line much faster at Jeff’s vineyard vs Armory up further northwest. As always, this is our mentor Jeff Koligian’s personal farming project. He planted this vineyard a few years after we stopped working together at Sunridge. The vineyard is planted in a bowl on the west side of town, and we chose the varieties and rootstocks specifically to harvest all together at once. The 2024 vintage had the tiniest heat spike just prior to our harvest date, and it left the grapes super dehydrated upon harvest. The high octane wine was still a phenomenal blender in Fiction, but it just didn't live up to something we wanted to force. For those that have been with us for the long term, you know what to expect from Jeff’s vineyard, and it just wasn't right to bottle some alone for 2024. This probably gives all of you a great opportunity to stash a bottle for a special occasion in a few years. I think you’ll be stoked on the outcome.
2020 ARMORY //
2020 ARMORY //
100% CABERNET SAUVIGNON
$75 REGULAR / $60 BOTTLE CLUB
We hoped to store this library release a little longer, but the cool 2023 season got the best of the dry farmed Armory vineyard. 2023 was such a long and cool season, the acidity never came down in our blocks of Cab. By the time it started getting into the sweet spot, the grapes had already reached 18%+ potential alcohol, which got it all out of whack and made it extremely tough to ferment with our native yeast. We were still able to use the fruit as a great blending component in 2023 Fiction, but it just wasn't up to our quality of standalone, single-vineyard offerings where I could look all of you club members in the eyes and say it deserved its premier status in the lineup.
The 2020, on the other hand, thrived because of the hot season that year. The heat balanced out the acidity in the end wine, and it really gave this wine legs for the long hall. I know most of our wines are not cellared, but after you try this one, you might be asking yourself why you don’t stash a few bottles away in the wine fridge for years to come.