I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 AFKAT_2025 80 hectares of Pinot Noir

80 hectares of Pinot Noir and 1

fermented with native yeasts and raised in concrete

Certified organic since the 2019 vintage

fine-grained

smoked salmon smash burgers and ramen

I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 AFKAT_2025 80 hectares of Pinot NoirBates 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