2016 Dirty and Rowdy Mourvèdre Old Vine Evangelho Vineyard - USA, California, San Francisco Bay, Contra Costa County (7/21/2020)
It took immense willpower to taste this over two nights. It would have been so easy to blow through it on night one. With that said, it was markedly better on night two. The first night it was more coiled, but still showed great depth. Tonight it was all the things I expected, savory, sappy, earthy, and not actually all that fruity until a cherry-tinged finish that had me going back again for the next sip. That savory richness aligned the sappiness screamed Evangelho to me. It’s why I love the vineyard, and this bottling from Dirty & Rowdy.