Each quarter, we share wines that we are especially excited about and an album that echoes their mood — a sensory pairing that you can enjoy together or explore individually.

For our inaugural Wine & Record Club, we’re embracing the beauty of improvisation — the collaborative explorations, spontaneous decisions, and intuitive adaptations that keep us curious.

So let's take a trip to California, the creative birthplace of both the vibrant, expressive wines of Rajat Parr and the music of the genre-defying quintet SML.

Rajat Parr has lived his life intertwined with the vine. The knowledge and inspiration gleaned from his legendary career as a top sommelier, award-winning author and celebrated winemaker has led him to the challenge of a lifetime as a wine farmer on the California Coast. Widely recognized as one of the country’s greatest sommeliers, he built his reputation as a wine director with an extraordinary palate, a rare gift for blind tasting, and an obsessive drive to explore new wines, winemakers, and regions.

In the second act of his career, Rajat turned his attention from the cellar to the vineyard with Parr Collective, becoming a driving force behind a new generation of California wine. Parr Collective is a community of shared knowledge and experience centered on the wines of Phelan Farm, Stolo, Brij Wines, and Scythian Wine Co. Rajat conceived of Parr Collective as a home for the exchange of ideas and inspiration he found on the road as a sommelier. Under the banner of Parr Collective, Rajat’s vinous ventures explore California’s potential to produce distinctive wines that speak of their unique origin with concentration and elegance.