Assiduous Cabernet Sauvignon 'Bates Ranch' 2022 (Santa Cruz Mountains, California) - [WE 92]

About the Winery:Winemaker and vineyard manager Keegan Mayo was born in Hawai’i and raised in Santa Cruz, and produces minimal intervention, food friendly wines with a real sense of place. His first introduction into the wine industry was working for a few summers at Split Rail Vineyard in Corralitos. He graduated from UC Davis Viticulture and Enology Program in 2008. While attending school he spent a harvest with Mumm in Napa as a cellar hand and grape sampler.  In 2009, he spent the vintage with Church Road Winery in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, before settling into a nearly nine year tenure with Testarossa Winery, where he eventually became the Assistant Winemaker. He only produces wines from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Notes from the Winemaker:This is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from the Bates Ranch Vineyard, a historic fourth generation property at the foot of Mt. Madonna in the Santa Cruz Mountains . The vineyard has some 27-year-old dry farmed vines as well as some younger plantings. The