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2018 Sandlands San Benito County Mataro

2018 Sandlands San Benito County Mataro

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Review Date: 07/2021
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Hailing from the historic Enz Vineyard, this bottling begins with elegant aromas of lavender, plum and dried earth. The tannic tension is immediately apparent on the palate, both leathery and taut, giving long-living structure to the cranberry, sour cherry, crushed cement and tar flavors. *Cellar Selection* (MK)

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Vinous

Review Date: 01/2020
The 2018 Mataro (San Benito County) is intensely aromatic and perfumed. Rose petal, mint, lavender, crushed red berries and mint lead into a core of sweet red/purplish berry fruit. Brisk acids and a spine of tannin give the wine energy as well as persistence all the way through to the salivating finish. Floral overtones reappear on the finish, adding a closing kick of mineral and citrus inflections. (AG)

Notes

From Antonio Galloni in Vinous: "This set of wines from Tegan and Olivia Passalacqua is full of highlights. The biggest issue readers will face is having to choose among them. The 2018s benefit from a long, moderate growing season that yielded wines blessed with extraordinary fruit purity and tremendous depth, but with no excess weight, the only exceptions to that being the Mission and Cinsault which are, by their very nature, airy. As always, the focus is on own-rooted, dry-farmed heritage sites, some of which date back to the late 1880s/early1900s, and non-interventionalist winemaking. Most of the reds are done with 100% whole clusters (except the Mission, Cinsault and Zinfandel), but none of the wines show pronounced whole cluster character. Best of all, these wines offer unreal value in today's world." (01/2020)

Product Details

Origin: California, United States

Type/Varietal: Mourvedre

SKU: #1605679