Producer | Silver Oak Cellars |
Country | United States |
Region | Napa Valley |
Varietal | Cabernet Sauvignon |
Vintage | 2018 |
Sku | 31271 |
"The lovely ruby red colour is translucent, revealing a heady wine of blackberry, liquorice, vanillin, spicebush, and dried floral notes with savoury, toasty oak spices. This 2018 offers one of the more restrained and pretty bouquets of Silver Oak's Napa Cabernet in my memory. Very elegant on the entry, revealing a medium-bodied red wine with lovely cranberry fruit, plums, and currants, with a real depth to those fruit qualities framed by sculpted tannins that affix themselves onto the palate before giving way and resolving. Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant with trace amounts of Petit Verdot and Malbec. Aged in 85% new American Oak from The Oak Cooperage in Higbee, Missouri, the Duncans have owned it outright since 2015. The other 15% are second-use American oak barrels. They've been using the same cooperage for decades. The barrels imbue the Silver Oak wines with a classic vanillin quality, a nuance they always want to retain, even as they experiment with various toasts to produce smoother tannins in the toasting process."
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet is rich in flavors and sturdy on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine excels with aromas and flavors of red and blackberries, with a nice balance of oaky notes. Enjoy it with baked lamb chops in saffron rice. (Tasted: February 5, 2023, San Francisco, CA)
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