I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 ReasonableCellar2025 A rare brandy made from

A rare brandy made from Pinot Noir grapes from one of the finest Burgundy producers

and Poggio di Sotto in any serious conversation about Brunello

The Cote des Bar sits closer to Chablis than to Reims

mineral-driven energy through a long

I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 ReasonableCellar2025 A rare brandy made 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