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

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

Lemon curd

and thyme—are macerated directly in the wine

Monumental architecture and staying power from a benchmark vintage

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