Winemaker
Andrew Jones
- Discipline
- Winemaker
- Based in
- Paso Robles, California, United States
i. Biography
Andrew Jones is the winemaker of Field Recordings Winery in Paso Robles and the founder and winemaker of Field Recordings. The work reads from the vineyard outward: soil, spacing, timing, and the slow accumulation of decisions that shape what reaches the bottle. With Andrew Jones, Field Recordings is built on observation and continuity, staying close to what the vines are doing and how a season is moving.
Today
Training at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo led Andrew Jones into vine nursery work in California, where the focus was practical and immediate: field conditions, plant material, and the early labor that sits before cellar work. That background remains central to the way Andrew Jones operates now as founder and winemaker of Field Recordings, winemaker of Field Recordings Winery, and primary job vine nursery worker planning and planting vineyards of vine nursery. The emphasis is on the beginning of the process, where vineyard decisions are made long before a label exists. That orientation gives the work a clear shape. Vineyard planning, planting, and cultivation carry equal weight with the finished wine, and Andrew Jones treats those choices as the basis of the cellar rather than separate from it. Field Recordings, in that sense, is organized around long-range site work: the patient reading of land, fruit, and season.
Signature
Andrew's signature wines include Skins, Fiction, Freddo, Wonderwall, and Neverland. Those names point to range, but they also sit inside the same working framework. Skins, Fiction, Freddo, Wonderwall, and Neverland all come from a producer whose identity is tied to vineyard labor as much as to finished wines. The line from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo to vine nursery fieldman at vine nursery in California, and now to founder and winemaker of Field Recordings, winemaker of Field Recordings Winery, and primary job vine nursery worker planning and planting vineyards of vine nursery, keeps the emphasis on process. For Andrew Jones, the signature is located as much in the method as in the bottle: disciplined vineyard work, attention to what a site can become, and a career built from the ground up through Field Recordings.
Profile updated July 2026
FAQ
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Where did Andrew Jones train or study?
Andrew Jones trained at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
What recognition has Andrew Jones received?
Innovator of the Year (2023).
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