Sandlands Contra Costa County Mourvedre Rose 2025 SF Chronicle soft citrus and a finish

soft citrus and a finish of freshly ground coffee and dark chocolate

a Chambolle-Musigny lieu-dit that just happens to sit on the wrong side of an appellation line

This is summer-afternoon

no compromises

Sandlands Contra Costa County Mourvedre Rose 2025 SF Chronicle soft citrus and a finishMost California ros is an afterthought; Tegan Passalacqua treats it as a serious wine. This one is Mourvdre from vines planted in the 1920s in Contra Costa County, own rooted and dry farmed in the deep sand that let these old plantings survive a century of phylloxera, neglect and suburban sprawl. Passalacqua spent years as director of winemaking at Turley while building Sandlands entirely around forgotten head trained vineyards like this one, and his