People who consistently drink California Cabernets are usually thrown off by my wine. They aren't wrong because Taste Preference is Personal
But if you specifically drink California Cabernet Sauvs you are drinking one of the most commoditized products in the wine world.
High end California Cabernet can be World Class. It can be amazing wine.
The problem is that most California Cabernet is not World Class. It is styled and manipulated to fit a very specific flavor profile.
Deviate from that and it's suddenly "not what a Cab should taste like."
That single phrase tells you everything about how narrow the template has become.
Peony Lane is different and that's the point. I do not make California wine in the mountains of Colorado.
