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2019 Three Wine Company Old Vines Field Blend Contra Costa County 750 ml
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Our Top-Rated Red Blend
The 2019 Old Vines Field Blend is exactly the kind of affordable blockbuster that has made Three Wine Co. such a favorite among our members.
In between Contra Costa County’s high-rises and strip malls, Matt Cline has been working tirelessly to maintain vineyards that offer a window into the Contra Costa of yore. There are no trellises, rose bushes, or mansion-like tasting rooms. In these vineyards, there’s no dirt, no gravel, no galets roulés. Everything is sand.
Huge, gnarled vines the size of small trees reach up, craning skyward in shapes that defy modern viticulture and would make most Napa vineyard managers cringe. Between what passes for rows, the vines are marked Spanish Mataró, Carignan, Zinfandel, and Malvasia Nera—planted helter-skelter in the traditional field-blend style pioneered by early farmers across Europe.
Hauled in buggies from the old Buena Vista Winery to Contra Costa 100–125 years ago, each vine was planted from a six-inch stick called “budwood” and hand-twisted into the Delhi sand by Portuguese and Italian immigrant families with names like Spinelli, Lucchesi, Evangelho, and Jacuzzi.
It would be almost 100 years before a young Matt Cline, the grandson of Valeriano Jacuzzi, would walk us through the tree-like vines. He described their history and how each one still ekes out a few clusters every year, the berries packed with dense red-fruit concentration.
Today, Matt’s Old Vines Field Blend is an opulent, transportive taste of the past, bursting with ripe fruit and exotic, spice-driven complexity. In an era when machine-made wines often dominate the value sector, nothing tastes better than these handmade heritage bottlings—and we’re thrilled to share this one with you.