Santa Barbara County, California

Plush layers of black currant, spearmint and bacon fat spilling in to kirsch, squashy blueberries and hints of tobacco. Don’t expect something overcooked and huge, just expect a wonderfully sumptuous, lifted Cabernet that dances across the palate encouraging you to take another sip. A sure crowdpleaser and dinner party favourite. Sourced from three sites that Andrew manages, the wines spends 10 months in barrel with about 30% new American oak.

As a vine nursery field man, Andrew Jones has spent many hours exploring vineyards, planning, planting, and chatting with farmers all over the Central Coast. He began spotting more and more interesting and overlooked vineyards - often rocky, wilder sites located closer to the Pacific, farmed mindfully by clients who have become friends over many years.