2018 Odette Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is more backward and structured, with a brooding bouquet of black fruits, scorched earth, tobacco, camphor, and spicy oak. This carries to a full-bodied, primordial beast of a wine that has a stacked mid-palate, loads of tannins, a rounded, expansive texture, and a big finish. It's a serious, powerful wine that's not going to offer much pleasure for at least another 3-5 years, yet this sure bet is magical juice that will evolve for 30 years or more. If you just can't wait, give bottles a solid hour or so in a decanter.

The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is silky, perfumed and beautifully polished from start to finish. Lifted floral notes and a whole range of red/purplish berry fruits literally hover over the palate in a wine that marries power to finesse. Winemaker Jeff Owens coaxes striking nuance out of this Stags Leap site in the 2018 Reserve, a Cabernet that is incredibly sexy and alluring, even in the early going.

Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the deep garnet-purple colored 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve comes bounding out of the glass with exuberant scents of blackcurrant cordial, stewed plums and blueberry preserves, plus an undercurrent of tobacco leaf, wild sage, iron ore and crushed rocks with a hint of pencil shavings. The full-bodied palate is laden with black and blue fruit preserves, supported by lovely tension and a firm frame of grainy tannins, finishing long and lively.