I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 SPRHONE The perpetual reserve gives it

The perpetual reserve gives it added complexity and roundness while the young fruit keeps it bright

This savory sake is inspired by local legends of Niigata's annual fox-bride festival

fresh acidity

it's smoky

Jean-Paul Jamet has been at the helm since 1976

I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 SPRHONE The perpetual reserve gives itBates 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