Paysan San Benito County Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 CS20230516 Aged in American white-oak barrels

Aged in American white-oak barrels

and a benchmark for what modern Gredos Garnacha can do

slow-cook fashion by the legendary Real family

Made Méthode Champenoise by hand

drink it now or age it for decades

Paysan San Benito County Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 CS20230516 Aged in American white-oak barrelsOld vine Cabernet from San Benito County not a sentence you read often, and that's exactly the point of Paysan. Ian Brand is one of the Central Coast's most curious winemakers, and this bottling pulls fruit from older Cabernet plantings in a region better known for everyday wine than serious red. In his hands, it becomes something else: medium bodied, savory, herbal edged, with cassis and dried sage and a real sense of place. The opposite of glossy