Sandlands, Mataro 'Contra Costa', 2024 so081925 albamar offer with perfectly balanced acidity to

with perfectly balanced acidity to keep it lifted off your palate

Give it a couple minutes in the glass to unfurl

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and clay soils deliver wines with the structure of Nuits and a hint of Vosne-Romanée elegance from its proximity to that commune

BH:"A highly expressive and complete knockout of a nose is classic Amoureuses as it combines seductive spice and a ripe blend of red

Sandlands, Mataro 'Contra Costa', 2024 so081925 albamar offer with perfectly balanced acidity toMataro 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,