Review: Tomorrow Cellars 2024 Red Blend
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IMAGE COPYRIGHT: SOME GOOD CLEAN FUN, 2026
When Tomorrow Cellars winery first launched their non-alcoholic 2023 Red Blend in summer 2025, it was a dynamite addition to the non-alcoholic red wines category and immediately made my list of best non-alcoholic red wines. Made with petite sirah in California, the red blend was full of dusty tannins and structure for days.
The blend was so popular, it sold out quickly, but good news for fans. There is a new vintage - the Tomorrow Cellars 2024 Red Blend.
The former Red Blend was iconic because it was crafted in partnership with Ian James Blessing, the founder of All The Bitters. Adding bitters to non-alcoholic wine has been a long-time ‘hack’ for lovers of alcohol-free wine to add mouthfeel and complexity. Tomorrow Cellars brought this idea in-house to create a delicious red wine that hit all the right notes for me.
Since it sold out in January, we’ve all been waiting patiently for the new vintage and it’s finally here!
The 2024 Red Blend is a bit of a departure from the original wine, as the winery (still in partnership with Ian Blessing) has developed a deeper more nuanced liquid with noticeably more botanicals. And just a reminder that wine is an agricultural product that isn’t made in a tank, so the grapes are gonna taste how the grapes are gonna taste from one year to the next.
Aroma
This non-alcoholic red wine legitimately smells like real wine. On the nose there are big juicy notes of dark cherry, leather and spice just like a complex red wine.
Taste
Where the previous wine was drier and more tannic, this new blend is soft and supple and smooth with a hint of bright acidity. It’s a lot more juicy with prominent tart cherry notes, cassis and some softer dusty tannins. It’s not as dry as the first vintage, but its well-balanced with the fruit. If you like Luminara’s Napa blend, you will definitely love this bottle. I think it’s a better version of the Luminara, with slightly more structure, and a long, dry finish.
Mouthfeel & Texture
Petite sirah notoriously has a lot of body, but when you dealcoholize red wine this is the first thing to go. The 2023 Red Blend was a little on the thin side (which did not bother me at all!) but with the new blend they’ve tried to add a little bit more heft with the addition of slightly more of the botanical extracts, now at 2% of the overall volume. It’s still on the thinner side, but arguably, a nicer smoother experience than the first vintage.
Overall
As a wine person, I was hoping for more complexity (maybe some pepper or smoke to round out the juicy cherry) but I think this is a very consumer friendly bottle that everyone across the wine drinking spectrum will love.
Tracy Sweeney, co-founder of Tomorrow Cellars, says that they contemplated adding some pepper to the extract but it didn’t feel quite right.
“We took what nature gave us. 2024 was a hotter growing year so the wine is riper and the tannins a bit softer,” she explained.
One of the biggest complaints about European style non-alcoholic wine is that it’s too sour or too thin - with Tomorrow Cellars 2024 Red Blend, they’ve crafted a European Merlot-style wine that drinks like it’s from California. Just delicious!
Score: 95 points
WHERE TO BUY TOMORROW CELLARS
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How I rank wines (based on IWSC standards):
95 to 100 - An excellent drink with a great personality. An example that stands out among its peers
90 to 94 - An accomplished drink with considerable personality, character and complexity. A classic example of its style or variety.
85 to 89 - A perfectly well-made drink which provides an enjoyable drinking experience.
80 to 84 - An acceptable but simple drink, lacking distinction.
