Sandlands Contra Costa County Mourvedre Rose 2025 SF Chronicle and thyme—are macerated directly in

and thyme—are macerated directly in the wine

Lemon curd

This is summer-afternoon

and red plum enveloped in warm black pepper and nutmeg

no compromises

Sandlands Contra Costa County Mourvedre Rose 2025 SF Chronicle and thyme—are macerated directly 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