Enfield Wine Co. Napa Valley Chardonnay Watson Ranch 2021 champagne-club slow lees aging

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Enfield Wine Co. Napa Valley Chardonnay Watson Ranch 2021 champagne-club slow lees agingWatson 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,