Wine Doctrine
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Reviews

3 notes

2013

Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

California · Napa Valley

Creosote, funk, blackberry skin, and cedar. A wine to which I immediately made "that face" when I took a sip. A rough go here. I thought this was a flawed Bordeaux. Turns out it was just a terrible…

Reviewed 9 September 2021
2012

Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

California · Napa Valley

Red currant, cedar, underbrush, and some thin black cherry notes. A pedestrian front end attack, with a simple mid-palate and overly lithe finish. Not even that much acid or grip to cut the beautiful…

Reviewed 7 July 2018
2009

Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

California · Napa Valley

PnP with an overpowering note of stewed plum, and a little bit of a musky, wet cedar taste. Tannins were fairly dead.

Reviewed 14 November 2015