Sandlands 2023 Mataro Contra Costa

This is 100% Mataro (Mourvedre) from Contra Costa County, head-trained and dry-farmed in a vineyard planted in the 1920s. The soils are classified as Delhi blow sand, consisting of decomposed granite deposited by wind and water. While the Mataro grape is known as dark-fruited and robust, Tegan always seems to find a way to coax freshness and vivacity out of it, with ample acid and enough structure to age another ten years easily.