Silver Oak Cab Sauvnapa Valley 1994

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Winery:

Silver Oak Cellars

Varietal:

Cabernet Sauvignon

Region:

USA > California > Napa

Type:

Red Wine

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User Tags:  resinous, spices, red, plum, berry, smooth, fruit, stone fruits, complex, oak 

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What to Expect

California's Napa Valley has been a source of world-class Cabernet Sauvignon for well over a century. Its warm climate and varied terrain allows for many styles of wine. One thread that runs through almost all the Cabernet based wines from Napa is their lush, ripe full-bodied feel and rich flavors of currant and berry. Wines from the valley floor, particularly around Rutherford, are famed for a dusty quality and those coming from the hillsides surrounding the valley, Mt. Veeder, Diamond Mountain and Howell Mountain for example, tend to be a little leaner with more obvious structural elements.

Winemakers Notes

Notes on the Silver Oak Napa Cabernet Sauvignon 1994 : WINE SPECTATOR REVIEW: 91 POINTS Complex and sophisticated, with layers of concentrated currant, herb, coffee, sage, mineral and spice flavors that fan out and linger on the finish. A wonderfully textured wine with a strong dose of American oak. Best from 2000 through 2008. (JL) Issue: Oct 31, 1998WS California Cabernet '74/'84/'94 Retrospective: Dark, plush and concentrated, with a decided coconut and oak accent mixed with complex plum and berry flavors. Finishes with a rich, focused, generous aftertaste, with fine read more...length. Deftly balanced. Drink now through 2009. (JL) Issue: Nov 15, 2004WINE ADVOCATE REVIEW: 93 POINTS The 1994 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa (89% Cabernet Sauvignon and 11% Cabernet Franc) reveals toasty sweet oak in the nose, bombastic levels of black currant fruit and spice along with a hint of mint in the background. Supple and full-bodied, with delirious levels of cedar and unctuously-textured fruit, this fleshy, gorgeously made Cabernet Sauvignon should drink well for 14-15 years.The Napa offerings from Silver Oak tend to be less herbaceous and more oriented toward Cabernet Sauvignon's black fruit spectrum than the Alexander Valley cuvees. They are every bit as exotic and ostentatious as the Alexander Valley cuvees, but more classic, tannic, perhaps longer-lived, and slightly less approachable.Silver Oak wines are supple, explosively fruity, and deliver copious quantities of glycerin, extract, and richness wrapped in generous quantities of American oak. Critics have argued that the wine does not age particularly well, but that has largely been proven a myth. I doubt it will last as long as Chateau Montelena, Dunn, or other Napa Cabernets with a 30-40 year aging potential, but these wines have a broad window of drinkability, being delicious at release, and able to sustain their fruit and character for 15 or more years.Drink: 1998-2013, Wine Advocate #120 (Dec 1998), Robert ParkerSILVER OAK NAPA CABERNET SAUVIGNON 1994    (hide)

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