WINEMAKER'S NOTES:
The 2021 Napa Valley Cabernet opens with blueberry, licorice, fresh florals and a cool hint of wintergreen, gliding into dark fruit and silky tannins with a long finish—framed by subtle baking spice and toasted coconut from 100% American oak barrels.
Aged for over four years before release, the wine arrives ready to mark your milestones today. Why Wait?
77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc, 2% Malbec
TASTING NOTES:
Silver Oak’s 2021 Napa Valley Cabernet might well be one of the finest wines they’ve produced. Compact and beautifully poised, it marries generosity of fruit with a firm structural frame and focused aromatics. A panoply of blackberry and warm spice—smoked paprika, cinnamon, tobacco—lifts from the glass, interwoven with black truffle and loamy earth. Full-bodied, with a solid foundation of lengthy tannins buttressing the wine, it’s carried by a firm spine of juicy acidity. Rich oak spices are balanced by graphite minerality, a potpourri of dried flowers, and a chalky-earth finish that lingers. This is undoubtedly set to be one of Silver Oak’s longest-lived wines: ripe and generous enough to enjoy young, yet built on a sturdy foundation that will reward long-term cellaring. 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Malbec are blended before barreling down for 24 months in American oak, of which 85% was new, 15% was once-used, and aged 20 additional months in bottle before release.
- Decanter, 98 pts.
Great concentration and gorgeous fruit flavors lead the way in this firmly textured wine from an especially good year. Red and black cherries, black tea and dried blueberries on the palate, backed by rather tight tannins that will need time to soften for ideal drinking. Still firm and lip-smacking in the finish, echoing more dark fruit. Best from 2030.
- James Suckling, 97 pts.
