Bedrock Wine Company, Evangelho Heritage Wine Red, 2020 SO042126 Like its sibling (Casse-Tetes)

Like its sibling (Casse-Tetes)

ready to drink now but will evolve gracefully over the next 3-5 years

Dry-farmed and organically tended

offers fog-cooled fruit

The 1995 was just the second bottling of this cuvée

Bedrock Wine Company, Evangelho Heritage Wine Red, 2020 SO042126 Like its sibling (Casse-Tetes)Evangelho is one of the strangest, most singular old vine sites in California: own rooted vines planted in the 1890s into forty foot deep banks of pure beach sand along the Sacramento River Delta in Contra Costa County. The sand kept phylloxera out, so these vines never needed grafting, and it lends the wine an unmistakable polish and supple, mineral texture. Bedrock now farms the site and bottles it as a field blend of old vine Carignan, Mourvdre,