Sandlands Contra Costa County Mourvedre Rose 2025 SF Chronicle and red plum enveloped in

and red plum enveloped in warm black pepper and nutmeg

Moulin-a-Vent is the cru with the most muscle

This is summer-afternoon

You could decant this for an hour before serving to hasten its development

no compromises

Sandlands Contra Costa County Mourvedre Rose 2025 SF Chronicle and red plum enveloped inMost 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