Silver Oak, Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Silver Oak, Napa Valley Cabernet SauvignonA super creamy, delicious and detailed red with oodles of red fruit, silky tannins and a full body. It tastes pure, fresh, almost delicate, offering raspberries, cherry cream, blueberries, cafe au lait and subtle oak toast on the palate. A gentle, layered, pretty wine that seems not at all affected by the wildfire smoke that year. Drinkable now, but best from 2030.

violet and softly spiced aromas

followed by a long finish

Big and gripping but surprisingly graceful wine with very good finishing lift and precision

mint and chocolate

Rich but lively as well

7 grams per liter

Chardonnay seems to play the leading role in 2004

(from 6 different lieux-dits)

Here too there is a whiff of sulfur present on the wood trimmed aromas of white-fleshed orchard fruit where various citrus elements lurk in the background

honeyed at the edges

with excellent balance

I do wonder if it might become heavy as it does so