: a syrupy liquor of low alcoholic strength made from black currants and used chiefly as a flavoring and sweetening agent
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This region, located about an hour north of San Francisco, is known for big, bold reds with ripe blackberry, cassis, and vanilla flavors, often with a hefty dose of oak.
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Emily Price, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
The extra dose of vanilla is immediately noticeable, but what really grabbed me was how the cassis accord playfully dances with the rum note to create something that feels both familiar and entirely new.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 28 Feb. 2025
Frias Family Vineyard Prado 2022 has a complex bouquet of blueberry pie, saddle leather, black raspberry, and cassis that transform to flavors of black plum, ripe cherry, and black olive tapenade on the palate.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
Dark earthy aromas that also include cassis and red cherries, molasses, licorice, brownies, mints and orange rind.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
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Emily Price, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
The extra dose of vanilla is immediately noticeable, but what really grabbed me was how the cassis accord playfully dances with the rum note to create something that feels both familiar and entirely new.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 28 Feb. 2025
Frias Family Vineyard Prado 2022 has a complex bouquet of blueberry pie, saddle leather, black raspberry, and cassis that transform to flavors of black plum, ripe cherry, and black olive tapenade on the palate.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
Dark earthy aromas that also include cassis and red cherries, molasses, licorice, brownies, mints and orange rind.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cassis
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“Cassis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cassis. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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