2024 Desire Lines Evangelho Red Wine

“The 2024 Red Wine Evangelho Vineyard is bold, juicy and wonderfully expressive right out of the gate. A burst of dark red/purplish fruit, lavender, spice, rose petal and pomegranate makes a strong first impression. Carignane is front and center in this gorgeous, engaging Contra Costa red. Readers will have a very hard time keeping their hands off of this. What a gem.” 94 points, Antonio Galloni (Vinous)

Evangelho Vineyard is one of California’s greatest vineyard sites, home to own-rooted vines planted in the 1890s. A century of thoughtful, progressive farming has yielded vines that are healthy, resilient, and wise. Deep granitic sandy soils imbue the wines with distinctively suave and fine-grained tannins, while the vineyard’s proximity to the Carquinez Strait tempers the summer sun with an onrush of coastal winds that begin around noon each day. This daily wind stress alters the vines’ respiratory rates, producing ripe grapes with low pHs and fresh, vibrant flavors.