WTN: And the fever, getting higher, Desire!

[David M. Bueker]

• 2019 Desire Lines Evangelho - USA, California, San Francisco Bay, Contra Costa County (3/7/2024)
  Every time I open a bottle of wine from the Evangelho Vineyard I am transported to a different plane of existence. It's a place where grapes can reach to the depths of the soul, eliciting emotions normally reserved for significant personal events or perhaps great art. Maybe that's what it is - Evangelho provides the winemakers with the elements of great art - form, texture, and depth, that they just have to coax into place. A wine of 90% Carignan and 10% Mourvedre, this has the brightness and firm structure of its primary component, but that dash of Mourvedre provides a bass note as strong as anything John Entwistle ever played for The Who. It's a canvas upon which the rest of the wine is built, and will sustain it for years, maybe decades to come. If I had a dozen more bottles (rather than one) it would still not be enough.