Ceritas Mariana's Cabernet Sauvignon, Santa Cruz Mountains, USA 2021

Mariana’s surrounds the family home of the Radonich family, who brought in Bill Brousseau to plant and farm a few acres of Cabernet Sauvignon on the gentle slope in 2015. The vineyard is like a garden - organically farmed with bonsai-esque attention to detail. Being the highest-elevation vineyard with which we work, Mariana’s is blessed with consistent alpine chill. The Cabernet Sauvignon we are farming here cannot ripen quickly and an extremely long hang time on the vine ensures the fruit is packed with wonderful depth of flavor and purity.

This wine is crafted from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, grown at Mariana’s Vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA. Planted in 2015 at 1,660 feet of elevation in sandstone soils, the vineyard surrounds the Radonich family home. They partnered with Bill Brousseau to plant and farm a few acres of Cabernet on its gentle slope. Organically farmed with garden-like precision and bonsai-level attention to detail, the fruit undergoes native yeast fermentation in concrete, followed by gentle extraction and pressing. The wine is then aged for 36 months in 500L French oak demi-muids, 50% of which are new.