Enfield Wine Co. Napa Valley Chardonnay Watson Ranch 2021 ABC321 Derriere le Four is one

Derriere le Four is one of the village's top premier crus

The palate is full and powerful with ripe tannins and woody undertones that frame the wine's richness

by Frederick Wildman

Dry-farming Chardonnay at 1

Enfield Wine Co. Napa Valley Chardonnay Watson Ranch 2021 ABC321 Derriere le Four is oneWatson 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,