A member favorite for 10 years running, the Old Vines Field Blend has drawn these raves:

This is a great bottle of wine!

The biggest bang for the buck on the wine list.

For the price, this is the best wine I have ever enjoyed. Actually, it is one of the better wines I have had at any price.

Thanks to our friendship with Matt, weve secured Wine Access members the phenomenal price of $16, a full 1/3 off what youd pay at the winery. Dont let this favorite slip away!

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 Matar, Carignan, Zinfandel, and Malvasia Neraplanted 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 100125 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 tiny berries packed with dense red-fruit concentration.

Today, Clines Old Vines Field Blend is an opulent, transportive taste of the past, bursting with ripe fruit and exotic, spice-driven complexityand the 2019 is exactly the kind of affordable blockbuster that has made Three Wine Co. such a favorite among our members.

Deep ruby to the rim, it bursts with high-toned black- and red-fruit aromas: blackberry, raspberry, boysenberry, and loganberry. Zinfandel, Carignan, Petite Sirah, Mourvdre, and Alicante Bouschet from heritage vineyards planted by first-generation immigrant families make for a truly opulent winea red that proudly struts its century-old-vine pedigree. In an era when machine-made wines often dominate the value sector, nothing tastes better than Matt Clines handmade heritage bottlesespecially at $16.