Sandlands, Mataro 'Contra Costa', 2024 so081925 albamar offer With its balanced character and

With its balanced character and approachable nature

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with perfectly balanced acidity to keep it lifted off your palate

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Sandlands, Mataro 'Contra Costa', 2024 so081925 albamar offer With its balanced character andMataro 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,