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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.8 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 62 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by 2muchwine on 6/30/2023: Nice, resolved but delicious. Tannin and acidity have faded, fruit is a touch sweeter than something like Puffeney but it is cali. Tastes of trousseau though and it’s a very nice wine. Not sure it’s a whole lot “better” than it was when young, but both stages are certainly delicious. Nice wine!! (558 views) | | | Tasted by Fugu Me on 1/26/2022: PnP, followed over a few days. Savory, but with a purity of fruit that cuts through, riding on the well balanced acidity. Lightly perfumed on the nose. Clean, with more body on the palate than I would have expected based on the light color. Great clarity. (1079 views) | | | Tasted by MartyL on 1/26/2022 & rated 93 points: Consistent with prior notes. Sad this was my last bottle. (1008 views) | | | Tasted by MartyL on 6/30/2021 & rated 93 points: Yep.
You know that feeling when you cellar a bottle for a few years and you open it up at some point and take one sip and it makes you feel like a genius? (1025 views) | | | Tasted by tcufletch on 11/24/2020: Consumed over the course of three days and not much change over that time but this is simply a wonderful wine and for the cost, positively stunning.
Pours a really pretty, clear, pale rouge, with a tinge of peach along the edges; light enough that you expect something along the lines of a darker Rose or maybe and Orange wine but the fruit is much darker, deeper and richer than those styles of wine; stems and strawberry on the nose, with a subtle spice undertone and maybe some orange zest; crisp and refreshing spiced strawberry and crunch, tart cranberry fruit on the front-end of the palate and then a nice savoriness of white pepper and bright tomato in the middle and on the back end; the savory characteristics show more as the wine warms to room temperature; a lot of bright acid still holds this together.
This wine drinks well in its young age with bright, crunchy, fresh fruit being the center, but after 6 years of sitting sideways, the savory character has pushed through the fruit and really makes this wine interesting. It's a joy to drink both young and with a little age. Curious how it will evolve over the next several years... (1283 views) | | | Tasted by rama on 9/8/2020: Purple flowers on the nose. Creamy, quaffable strawberry, touch of spice. Light/medium bodied, medium acidity. Hard to stop drinking this. (1096 views) | | | Tasted by MartyL on 7/24/2020 & rated 93 points: Consistent with prior note, but seems like the wine has added just a bit of weight with some more time in the cellar. Drinking beautifully now. (1024 views) | | | Tasted by Joeswine1 on 5/2/2020 & rated 91 points: Lovely wine. Light but more there than meets the eye. Really nice acidity to go with the strawberry notes. A bit weightless but be careful there is plenty of wine here. (997 views) | | | Tasted by Tubulus on 3/11/2020 & rated 92 points: Pours very light but that is deceptive as this has fairly deep and way darker fruit than the color suggests this is not a glou-glou strawberry confection! Good acidity and some earthy secondary notes. I really need to buy some of the reds on the next sandlands release... (1065 views) | | | Tasted by Millennial Drinkers on 3/4/2020 & rated 92 points: Light garnet red in appearance. Lots of strawberries on the nose with bramble berries, branches, herbs and gravel. Light tannins (4.5/10) with a medium minus to medium body. Fresh and well rounded palate with notes of purple flowers, strawberries, raspberries, a hint of herbs and light spices. Medium plus finish. Drink till 2025. (1148 views) | | | Tasted by Richard P Howden on 1/31/2020 & rated 90 points: A nice light-mid weight wine. Earthy strawberry nose and similar taste profile. Good acid, a fine complement to food. Charming in its way. (900 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 1/20/2020: Last summer I opened a bottle of this that i had misplaced. I thought it was my last one. I was wrong! Given the short time span between the two, this was virtually the same as the last - a lovely blend of savory, refreshing and tart fruitiness. Light bodied and with brisk acidity, it was well suited to our dinner of Indian daal and garlic naan. (1225 views) | | | Tasted by maxmanx on 12/31/2019: My favorite bottling from Sandlands. Wish I could get more. (910 views) | | | Tasted by 5laton on 10/4/2019: Tasty, but this is already dropping its primary fruit and heading into savory, tea notes. A little awkward and in-between today. I have one remaining bottle I will hold to see if there is another peak still to come. (331 views) | | | Tasted by Bakerbd on 8/14/2019 & rated 93 points: Very light bodied, floral, red fruit, mineral (1058 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 7/20/2019: I finally figured out how to wait a little while before ordering a bottle of Sandlands. I misplaced this one, and thought I had none left. Trousseau is not a grape I think about cellaring, as I enjoy the bright, fresh red fruit of its youth. A tiny bit of cellar time left the red fruit intact, but polished the texture. The initial attack was very silky, and it was only on the finish that the wine took on a more acid-driven style. It went from caressing to refreshing in the same mouthful. Interesting wine. I hope I misplaced another bottle. (1376 views) | | | Tasted by Brady D on 7/4/2019: This is a top-notch trousseau, not a top-Cali Trousseau, a top version from anywhere. I’ve had some decent American gamays, but never one that could replace top Beaujolais. For me this natural, haunting Trosseau is as good as they come, even from the Jura, which is exactly how I felt when I had the 2012. (1029 views) | | | Tasted by Grape_ape on 2/22/2019: still pretty primary, quaffable, juicy, pure fruit but a bit one note. (1238 views) | | | Tasted by pren on 10/12/2018 & rated 91 points: lightest red I had. Day1. gorgeous nose, warm spice on the back of palate. Day2. from 375. aromatics has lost significantly, palate is better developed. (1591 views) | | | Tasted by James Kim on 10/11/2018 & rated 92 points: PnP Initially, almost exuberant candied strawberries and cherries, with herbs, bark and a bit of earth. The fruit on the palate is less exuberant but still concentrated strawberries and ripe red cherries, with similar herbs, bark, a bit of earth and mild-moderate tannins on back end. Elegant and pretty texture with a nice finish. 2 hr later, fruit aromas are more subdued with herbs, baking spices, and bark taking a more prominent role. More harmonious strawberry and cherry fruit crushed with herbs, bark, earth and baking spices. More balanced and harmonious now. Still elegant. Moderate tannins are also more prominent on the back end. For me, the trousseaus are my favorite of the Sandlands line up. (1340 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 9/20/2018: Blind wines (OC): Poured blind. Lightly rose colored with some clear edges where it meets the glass, so think of this as a lighter colored wine. Woodsy and kirsch aromas, with a liqueur cherry core of red fruit. Smooth with some tangy acidity, and even what I noted as a touch of cherry tomato. Ends with a creamy berry note. Fascinating wine. (2032 views) | | | Tasted by tomlee on 8/8/2018 & rated 91 points: Light red in color. Just a shade darker than a Rosé. 13.4% ABV. Savory nose of red fruits, rose petal, blood and earth. Light to medium body with medium acidity. Crisp and refreshing on the palate. Flavors of black cherry, cranberry, pomegranate and black tea. Exceptional length on the finish. Just perfect served at cellar temperature on a warm Summer night. Best in the next year or so. (1677 views) | | | Tasted by Seafoam Manor on 4/20/2018 & rated 89 points: This seems to have lost a bit of speed off it's fastball, relative to previous bottles and other vintages. All of the tart red fruit, citrus and herbal notes are there and I like the sort of "savory rosé" profile, but this was just lacking a bit of intensity. This could be a less than great bottle but, with the limited allocation, I don't have another bottle to check it against, so I would put this in the "drink now" category and 1-2 years from the vintage might be the sweet spot, but I'm not going to pretend to have a good grasp on the aging curve for domestic Trousseau. (1743 views) | | | Tasted by lockestep on 4/14/2018 & rated 91 points: Opened and followed over two days. Right off the bat the wine was showing well, good fruit acid balance and clean flavors. Light dusky garnet in color. Light on the palate with lingering red fruits. Good length to the finish. Held well into day 2 with little drop in fruit, maybe the acid a bit less defined. Very well crafted wine. I have little experience with aged Trousseau and cannot predict a path forward but it is really nice today. (1663 views) | | | Tasted by nectar14 on 3/15/2018: I like the pale red color, and the pretty red fruits. Great at the table. Could drink this almost every day. (1572 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, California North Coast Supplement (Aug 2016) (8/1/2016)
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| Sandlands Producer website
Sandlands is the personal project of Tegan and Olivia Passalacqua. The line-up encompasses the forgotten classic California varieties, primarily grown in decomposed granite (sand), from regions and vineyards that have been farmed for many generations but have remained the outliers of California viticulture.
Primarily head-trained, dry-farmed and own rooted, the vineyards we work with harken back to California’s roots of exploration, wonder, and hard work. TrousseauTrousseau (also called "Bastardo") is a dark-skinned wine grape originally from Jura, northeastern France, but which has made its way over the centuries to vineyards in northwestern Spain and various parts of Portugal. As one might expect of a well-traveled variety with a long history, it goes by various names, the most notable of which are Bastardo (Portugal), Merenzao and Verdejo Negro (Spain).
Wines made from Trousseau typically have a deep cherry-red color and flavors redolent of dark red berries and other forest fruits. They also tend to be powerfully alcoholic, thanks to the prolific natural sugars of the Trousseau berry and their correspondingly high potential alcohol.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma CountySonoma Coast |
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