I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 26REASONABLE Slovenia) The Tement family of

Slovenia) The Tement family of Südsteiermark fame planted this single Slovenian vineyard—Ciringa

On top of traditional botanicals

fragrant Pinot at a fraction of Côte d'Or money

This is Barbaresco in its most refined expression

This sake’s name comes from “Hama” for beach

I Brand and Family Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon Bates Ranch Vineyard 2022 26REASONABLE Slovenia) The Tement family ofBates 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