2014 Cass Vineyards & Winery Reserve

Vivid purple. Displays expansive, oak-spiced cassis, cherry-vanilla, licorice and pipe tobacco scents, with a smoky nuance emerging steadily. Broad, sweet and seamless in texture, offering intense black and blue fruit, spicecake and mocha flavors that are lifted by a vein of juicy acidity. The vanilla and spice notes repeat emphatically on an impressively long, sweet finish that's given shape by velvety, harmonious tannins.