Sandlands Lodi Rose Kirschenbloom 2025 SPCALIFORNIA Dusty cherries and white smoke

Dusty cherries and white smoke with flowery undergrowth on the nose

runs his négociant operation with a grower's sensibility: organic-leaning farming partnerships

and the vines have been farmed without chemicals since they went into the ground in 1971

and the 2022 shows why this underrated appellation deserves attention: bright red cherries and raspberries lead on the nose

Sandlands Lodi Rose Kirschenbloom 2025 SPCALIFORNIA Dusty cherries and white smokeKirschenbloom comes from the vineyard Tegan Passalacqua actually owns: Kirschenmann, planted in 1915 on an oxbow of the Mokelumne River east of Lodi, own rooted and dry farmed in fine granitic sand washed down from the Sierra Nevada. It's Zinfandel with Cinsault from the same ancient block, de stemmed and left on the skins only until fermentation begins, then drained and finished bone dry closer in spirit to an Italian cerasuolo than to a pale