I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 012626OFFER Expect a darker

Expect a darker

Honeyed fruit

delivers brown sugar and baked blackberry aromatics alongside plum

The Malassagne family draws on three distinct sites for this blend: Chouilly Grand Cru Chardonnay for tension and mineral lift

it shows fresh red berries and sweet spices with vibrant freshness and beautiful purity

I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 012626OFFER Expect a darkerBates Ranch sits at the far southern tip of the Santa Cruz Mountains, near Mount Madonna, planted in the early 1970s and dry farmed on a steep slope well above a thousand feet. It's a historic Cabernet site whose fruit went into some of the region's benchmark bottlings decades ago, and Ian Brand treats it with the seriousness it deserves. This is emphatically not valley floor Cabernet: no plush, no chocolate, no weight for weight's sake. Instead you