“I started Verdad Wine Cellars in 2000. My goal has always been to make pure, balanced wines from the great vineyards of the Central Coast of California. My focus is on the cool, coastal vineyard sites of California’s Central Coast. I also love and am inspired by the wines of Spain. Living in California with it’s Spanish/Mexican heritage was my inspiration to make wine from Spanish wine grapes. In 2014, I started to work with Cabernet Sauvignon after a client requested a Cabernet Sauvignon based wine. That led me to try my hand at making Cabernet for Verdad, as it’s an incredible grape and its wines are some of the most age-worthy wines of the world. In addition up the road from the coast and inland I source Cabernet from Paso Robles. The vineyards offer steep hillsides and limestone and marine fossil rich soils that able to grow stellar Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot along with many other varieties. Los Alamos Canyon (Martian Vineyard) and Santa Ynez Valley (Ibarra-Young Vineyard) are exceptional AVA’s that combine both coastal and continental influences.” - Louisa Sawyer Lindquist