I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 012626OFFER Nose : The Demerara sugars

Nose : The Demerara sugars give off a whiff of sweet fragrances

Honeyed fruit

Day of the Dead inspired ale made with California pomelo

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

I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 012626OFFER Nose : The Demerara sugarsBates 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