I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 012626OFFER The objective: to showcase the

The objective: to showcase the most pure expression of fruit from these soils

yet delicious

Nicolas Faure trained at Domaine de la Romanee-Conti and with Jean-Louis Chave before building his own tiny domaine from scratch around Meuilley in the Cote de Nuits

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

Expect a darker

I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 012626OFFER The objective: to showcase theBates 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