Since founding Enfield Wine Co. in 2010, John Lockwood has enjoyed considerable critical acclaim, including being named a “Winemaker to Watch” by the San Francisco Chronicle. And we’ve been watching: He came to California from the East Coast, landing a job at Heron Lake Vineyard in the Wild Horse Valley AVA. He later apprenticed under Ted Lemon at Littorai and then worked for five years with Ehren Jordan, helping manage Failla’s Sonoma Coast and Russian River Valley vineyards. Lockwood self-identifies as a viticulturist first; he loves the farming of wine more than the ‘making,’ but he’s got a deft hand in the cellar. His wines are naturally made, finessed, and varietally precise, a product of conscientious farming of the right grapes in the right places. His ambition with this balanced, lively style of Cabernet is to evoke the classic, Bordeaux-inspired wines that brought worldwide acclaim to the region in the ’70s and ’80s.