Paysan San Benito County Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 CS20230516 An impressive execution of blending

An impressive execution of blending 31 different botanicals

Aged in American white-oak barrels

What you might want to drink while you have fresh tomato sauce simmering on the stove and Miles Davis on vinyl

These batches are individually aged in seasoned old oak casks before being blended together at 14 years of age

slow-cook fashion by the legendary Real family

Paysan San Benito County Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 CS20230516 An impressive execution of blendingOld 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