2014 Ghostwriter Bates Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, Santa Cruz Mountains, USA Destilerias Acha 2019 Domaine Humbert Freres Fixin

2019 Domaine Humbert Freres Fixin VV Cote de Nuits

2020 Les Vignes de Paradis Amphore Chasselas Savoie

Grapes are destemmed and fermented in amphorae with ~2 weeks of maceration on the skins

toasted oak

2014 Ghostwriter Bates Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, Santa Cruz Mountains, USA Destilerias Acha 2019 Domaine Humbert Freres FixinOur Bates Ranch story would not be complete without mentioning the many bottles spanning many vintages of Val and Dexter Alhgrens Bates Ranch Cabernets that we have been drinking since about 2001. When they retired and we began farming their estate vineyard, we also fortuitously inherited their orginal block of Cab at Bates Ranch. The vineyard is located along historic Redwood Retreat Road near Mt. Madonna on the Gilroy side of the Southern Santa Cruz