2006 Wallis Little Sister Cabernet Sauvignon

With aromas of blackberry, cassis, tobacco spice and smoked meat, this well-balanced wine has ripe fruit flavors of cassis and black fruit, with a firm tannic finish.

This is a kind of junior Cab to the winery’s regular Diamond Mountain bottling, whose 2006 was spectacular. The Little Sister is similarly rich and oaky, with broad flavors of blackberries and currants. It’s very tannic, and should improve over the next 2-4 years.