Sandlands, Mataro 'Contra Costa', 2024
Mataro is the old California name for Mourvedre, and Contra Costa County's sandy Oakley plots are its spiritual home. Tegan Passalacqua's Sandlands version draws from gnarled, head-trained, own-rooted vines well over a century old, planted in the deep silica sands that protected them from phylloxera and starved them into intensity. Tegan's hand is barely visible: native fermentations, neutral wood, no extraction tricks, just the rugged dark-fruited, mineral, almost wild expression that these vines have been giving for generations. A wine that makes the case for California as a Mediterranean wine country and a small but vital piece of West Coast viticultural history in every bottle.
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Mataro is the old California name for Mourvedre, and Contra Costa County's sandy Oakley plots are its spiritual home. Tegan Passalacqua's Sandlands version draws from gnarled, head-trained, own-rooted vines well over a century old, planted in the deep silica sands that protected them from phylloxera and starved them into intensity. Tegan's hand is barely visible: native fermentations, neutral wood, no extraction tricks, just the rugged dark-fruited, mineral, almost wild expression that these vines have been giving for generations. A wine that makes the case for California as a Mediterranean wine country and a small but vital piece of West Coast viticultural history in every bottle.
