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Lodi, Contra Costa & Amador, California, United States

Sandlands Vineyards

Tegan Passalacqua, own-rooted old vines, sandy and volcanic soils

Sandlands Vineyards is a wine producer in Lodi, Contra Costa & Amador, California, United States. LeMieux Wine Co. distributes Sandlands Vineyards wines to licensed restaurants, bars and retailers in Michigan.

Estate

Sandlands is the personal project of Tegan Passalacqua. Tegan is Head Winemaker and Vineyard Manager at Turley Wine Cellars since 2013. He came up under Ehren Jordan beginning in 2003 and worked harvests at Craggy Range in New Zealand, Alain Graillot in the Northern Rhône, and Eben Sadie in the Swartland.

Vineyards

Old, own-rooted vines in sandy and volcanic soils across Contra Costa, Lodi, and Amador counties. The varieties (Mataro, Carignan, Trousseau Gris, Chenin Blanc) are the unfashionable plantings California's old farmers put in the ground a century ago. Nobody since has had reason to replant them, and that survival is the point.

At a glance

Home
California's historic sand soil vineyards
Grapes
Carignane, Mataro, Chenin Blanc, Zinfandel
Thesis
Old vines in decomposed granite sand, from regions fashion left behind
Regions
Contra Costa, Amador, Lodi

Wines in our book

More about Sandlands Vineyards

Official website

For Michigan restaurants, bars and retailers

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