Cellarmaster select. To produce a complex, smooth and rounded wine, we stashed select lots of our pinot noir in brandy barrels. Aged 75 days in brandy barrels. Profile: Lush and jammy with salted caramel notes. Master blender. An artisan blend of brandy barrel aged pinot noir. Some winemaking traditions were meant to be broken. That's why our lush & jammy. Pinot Noir is blended with select lots aged in brandy casks. And when we cracked the barrels after 75 days, let's just say we knew pretty quickly that we were on to something good. Cooper & thief is a lush wine with cherry and caramel flavors and baking spice notes that finishes with a smooth mouth feel. Cooper & thief cellarmasters. Pinot noir. Why okas oak makes wine taste better, a selection of the most expensive wines in the world are produced with oak aging. This isn't an opinion, it's true, oak is crucial and everything from the type, size, age, grain and treatment of an oak barrel greatly affects the finished wine. Oak gives the wine sweetness and vanilla aromas. and the additional use of our aged brandy casks give the wine caramel & all spice notes, with depth and lushness of flavor.