I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 ReasonableCellar2025 Botanicals are individually infused for

Botanicals are individually infused for 20-50 days

The Cote des Bar sits closer to Chablis than to Reims

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

The 2022 vintage in Margaux was hot but well-managed

I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 ReasonableCellar2025 Botanicals are individually infused forBates 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