Mount Veeder Winery Reserve Red 2001

Mount Veeder's Reserve clearly delivers more overall. It's broad, wonderfully expressive aromas are layered with notes of cassis, dusty soil smells and lots of rich, caramelly oakiness, and it's powerful, highly extracted flavors exhibit the same deep sense of concentration and range. It is a very big wine to be sure and its gritty young tannins dissuade early drinking, but its riveting depth and show-stopping richness guarantee it a long and very illustrious life.