I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 ReasonableCellar2025 Delicate balsamic vanilla notes from

Delicate balsamic vanilla notes from the American white oak compliment the full-bodied aroma

The cult of Peters has gotten so strong that even there beautiful non-vintage Brut is now subject to allocations

7% Cabernet Franc—combines inky berry fruit with wild plums and hints of spice and ash

mineral-driven energy through a long

this 2019 was bottled under Audoy stewardship

I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 ReasonableCellar2025 Delicate balsamic vanilla notes fromBates 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