SILVER OAK
2019 CABERNET SAUVIGNON
NAPA VALLEY
To celebrate the latest release of the Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, one of Napa Valley’s original “cult wines,” I have asked AI to re-write an introduction in the voice of Robert Louis Stevenson, you know… he wrote “…and the wine is bottled poetry,” a quote that appears on the iconic Napa Valley signs.
Here’s what AI came up with:
“In the year of grace 1972, amidst the verdant valleys of California, two gallant souls, Ray Duncan and Justin Meyer by name, embarked upon a quest most noble. With hearts afire and eyes set upon the horizon, they vowed to craft a potion of such splendor – a Cabernet Sauvignon cradled in the bosom of American oak – that it would echo through the ages.”
Silver Oak began in 1972 as a patriotic dream between two friends, Ray Duncan and Justin Meyer, who wanted to vinify California Cabernet Sauvignon aged in American oak. More than a half-century later, their dream remains a reference point for this recipe, producing age-worth wines that are also delicious upon release.
The winery has maintained popularity by establishing itself as one of the US’s most reliable and high-quality domestic Cabernet Sauvignon producers. However, their 2019 vintage takes quality to even higher heights.
The Napa Valley blend undergoes slight modifications based on each season’s conditions before undergoing Silver Oak’s distinctive aging process of 24 months in American oak.
The winery allows the wines to mature for an extra 24 months in the bottle before making them available, and the 2019 vintage resulted in wines characterized by concentrated intensity, impeccable balance, and refined flavors.
SILVER OAK
2019 CABERNET SAUVIGNON
NAPA VALLEY
$199.99 per bottle
Tasting Notes: “The 2019 Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet shows a deep, ruby colour. It is a beautifully compact wine that delivers complex and nuanced aromas of Bing cherry and black raspberry with tobacco, currant leaf, and cedarwood laced with dried sage. Focused and linear on the medium to full-bodied palate, showing expressive dark berry character and exotic oak spices with a firm backbone of fine-grained structured tannins. Cool raspberry, cherry, and blackberry fruit are perfectly represented, and the lengthy finish is crisp, lively, and energetic. No doubt, this is one to cellar….”
96 Points | Jonathan Cristaldi | Decanter.com
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Customers who enjoy Silver Oak’s Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon may also enjoy these two outstanding wines.
THE SETTING
2020 CABERNET SAUVIGNON
ALEXANDER VALLEY
$95
Tasting Notes: “The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley is a saturated red with a ruby hue and has a forward, floral perfume of juicy mixed black and red fruit, candied violets, plums, and fresh herbs. Full-bodied and gushing with primary fruit up front, it has fine tannins and a supple, rounded mouthfeel, offering loads of blackberries and flowers before revealing slightly more earthy tones of mossy earth and tea leaf. Drink 2025-2040.”
97 Points | Audrey Frick | JebDunnuck.com
SILVER OAK
2019 CABERNET SAUVIGNON
ALEXANDER VALLEY
$99.99
Tasting Notes: “Aged in 50% new and 50% second-use American Oak from the Duncan family’s The Oak cooperage in Higbee, Missouri. Matt Duncan joined me for my tasting, and he says the Petit Verdot in the blend, of which there is 0.4%, is co-fermented with the Cabernet Sauvignon, intended to bring focus to the Cabernet fruit. A compelling, brooding, muscular rendition of Cabernet from Alexander Valley with gorgeous boysenberry notes, black currants, and rose petals laced with vanillin notes and toasty oak. Medium to full-bodied with black currants, ripe blackberry and black cherry notes framed by velvety tannins laced with that irresistible vanillin note. Toasty oak spices lend a hint of sweetness, balanced by grippy acidity. Long and complex, revealing umami, garrigue, and crushed slatestone on the finish. It’s a terrific wine from the Alexander Valley.” 95 Points | Decanter.com
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