A Sonoma winemaker takes the mansion after a prior run on the sister franchise — the kind of casting the producers had been refining since Andrew Firestone's vineyard run nine seasons earlier. Travel dates revisit prestige stops: Park City, San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Belize, Switzerland. The cocktail-party energy reads more confrontational than the prior winter, and the producers lean into it. Chris Harrison hosts a season remembered for casting friction more than romance.
Slot #24 of 28 in the The Bachelor Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.