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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.9 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by andtheodor on 9/29/2022 & rated 93 points: Truly delightful, I love serving these to people who have been conditioned to expect steakhouse styled wines whenever they see this famous label. Unlike the modern iterations, this is 12% alcohol, with a pleasant green timbre to the rich fruit, ample tannin and acidity. Perhaps most interesting of all is the notable oak that still pokes out of this wine. It doesn't detract but this must have been pretty oaky through its youth? (805 views) | | | Tasted by Seth Rosenberg on 7/14/2020 & rated 92 points: Day 4. Still holding up since being opened although it has lost a step. Deep plummy fruit with some black currant, lots of spice (some of it a remainder of the american oak), some herbal. This flirts with pruney at points but just manages to hold on. A little bit in the glass gets sweeter with some wild strawberry and a bit of heat and still the spice. The palate is similiar - dark fruit, spice, herbal - showing more green now. This is plush and deep - with the age and time opening showing bones a bit (heat and angularity), but still this is really enjoyable. The finish is red fruit, spice and a little varnish/VA. Last bottle (I think) from a case that dad bought near release - still had the $14.45 price tag on it. They don't make them like the used to ... that's for sure. A number of bottles of this from the early 90's to the late 00's were just killer. Nose - 5/6, palate - 5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 16/20. (1722 views) | | | Tasted by wgilbert3 on 1/19/2020 & rated 95 points: Decanted and let sit for more than 2 hours, even then it was just starting to open. Had with dinner after being open 3-4 hours and it was sublime: complex nose with some fruit, leather, hints of mushroom? On the palate, silky smooth and complex: lots of layers into a medium finish. (1513 views) | | | Tasted by Silkeyj on 12/24/2019 & rated 93 points: Ruby to light orange at the meniscus. Sediment. Nose is baked apricot, light cherry and raspberry, almost plastic candy smell. Wow. So many layers. All of the above, touch of tannin, smooth mouthfeel, long finish. Another treat to taste. (1507 views) | | | Tasted by wgilbert3 on 1/20/2019 & rated 91 points: Cork was intact but hard to remove. Filtered and decanted. Initially, very flat, almost nothing on the nose or palate. But after 90 minutes or a little more, it began to open up and was lovely until finished at 3 hours. After open, the nose had nice leather, spice and some fruit. Raisin, some dark fruit, hints of oak and leather on the palate. Very nice, just needs time to wake up! (1933 views) | | | Tasted by oldwines on 11/15/2014 & rated 94 points: Decanted at 5 PM and drunk over the next four hours. Lovely medium dark garnet color with little sign of age just a hint of brick on the edge. Nose is prototypical Silver Oak with lots of vanilla, licorice, dark black plum and a hint of tobacco. The palate reflects the nose with the dark fruit, licorice, vanilla and an element of earthiness and richness that seemed best as the last glass or two was drunk. Delicious both with grilled steak and without food as well. (5697 views) | | | Tasted by Seth Rosenberg on 7/19/2014 & rated 88 points: Meh - another dried out wine. Not as bad as the Rivers Marie Pinot earlier, but still not great. Too bad since I've had more than half a dozen excellent bottles of this wine. The nose is a little raisiny, but still has some beautiful and creamy Silver Oak fruit, with nice spice and a little vanilla from the oak. The palate is similar, it's deep, with dark fruit and spices, leather, but again the dried out nature shows. Maybe it's another bad bottle or maybe it is on the way down, not sure. Nose - 4.5/6, Palate - 4.5/6, Finish - 4/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 14/20. (5785 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Expresso on 2/13/2014 & rated 93 points: Tricky! It lost the competition but became WOTN an hour after scores given (5519 views) | | | Tasted by Cellarmann on 11/26/2013 & rated 91 points: Color showed its age - brick. Gorgeous nose of earth, dried leaves, current. Tannins fully resolved and drinking very well. Earthy, round, lovely. (6198 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 5/22/2012 & rated 93 points: Siver Oak Retrospective (Wayfare Tavern, San Francisco, California): Bricked medium dark red violet color; appealing, redolent, maturing, ripe cassis, baked cherry, raspberry, cedar, plum sauce nose; tasty, maturing but with signs of youth yet, tart cassis, tart currant, tart cherry, cedar palate; medium-plus finish (12% alcohol) (2749 views) | | | Tasted by Flavito on 3/22/2012 & rated 92 points: 1976 - The Paris Challenge Revisited (Bravin - Sao Paulo - Brazil): Perfect cork, probably reconditioned or recently released by the winery. Very alive, with some fruit and lots of mushrooms and leather. Silky and light bodied, some wood and dryness at the finish. Very good wine, surprisingly strong showing, but the Las Cases was a few steps above. (7886 views) | | | Tasted by Seth Rosenberg on 12/30/2011 & rated 88 points: Recent purchase (I think) from Benchmark - taken to Prime and Beyond in Fort Lee, NJ. Slight bricking again. Red-purple. Deep purple flavors - a little pruney and dried with some wood. A bit of heat. Violets. Soft again on palate w a touch of heat. Pruney fruit. Not as good as the bottles from dad's cellar but still nice. Enters soft and plush with dark berry fruit - almost jammy. Spicey and a little brambly. Nice and sweet on midpalate but shows some heat and prune on finish - a little Port-like or Amarone-like. As I said at the beginning, I think this is a recent purchase from Benchmark. My Dad had a case of this, purchased on release from Mills in Annapolis, MD (with the $12 price tags still on the bottles), and those bottles have been consistently awesome. This bottle was nice, but 2 steps down from those. Nose - 4/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 4/6, Je Ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 14/20. (3492 views) |
| By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (5/22/2012)
(Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley) Bricked medium dark red violet color; appealing, redolent, maturing, ripe cassis, baked cherry, raspberry, cedar, plum sauce nose; tasty, maturing but with signs of youth yet, tart cassis, tart currant, tart cherry, cedar palate; medium-plus finish (12% alcohol) 93 points |
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Cooper's Oak Winery and OAK Cooperage, Duncan Family of Silver Oak, Visit and TourCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyAlexander Valley Alexander Valley Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia
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