Sandlands Zinfandel Lodi 2023 Aleatico Would be best friends with

Would be best friends with some pasta with meat or tomato-based sauces

A literal bouquet of mint varieties immediately hits the nose with freshly slapped mint rather than the expected menthol that is typical of the category

but it would make an elevated dry Rob roy

Grapes are direct-pressed and co-fermented in stainless steel

Sandlands Zinfandel Lodi 2023 Aleatico Would be best friends withA single vineyard wine from a passion project. Sandlands is a personal project headed by Tegan Passalacqua, the longtime head winemaker of Turley Wine Cellars. The focus of the project is to showcase the older varieties that used to dominate Californian viticulture before the the arrival of the Bordelais and Burgundian grapes. These wines are made with head trained, dry farmed and ungrafted vines, as was the norm over a century ago. This is where the