Tilth Red Blend Old Vine Sonoma Valley 2023

“This Old Vine Red Blend is a muscular, bold and heady wine, offering black-fruit notes laced with ground espresso bean, toasty oak and dark chocolate. Round and richly supple, with silken dark-berry fruit and velvety tannins, it unfurls in waves of blue-fruit compote alongside stony, loamy, earthy minerality. The tannins build steadily, driving a bold finish that creeps up on you. This is not a cocktail-hour wine: it has the heft and structure that demand pairing with brisket, pulled pork or a red sauce with guanciale. Crafted by Keith Emerson of Vineyard 29 and Gundlach Bundschu Winery.”