2006 Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

Community Tasting Notes (141) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  4/13/2024 - aveeck Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The best of the field of a 2006 horizontal tasting.

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  3/13/2024 - Inforred wrote: 88 Points

  Does not show as ‘old’, but the wine is pretty unremarkable. Decent color and aromatics. Solid Napa cab.

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  7/30/2023 - Goldstone wrote: 88 Points

  Three bottles decanted 2 hours prior to serving over a lunch of baby lamb rack followed by Italian cheeses. The purpose was to bring down my inventory, as this vintage and other recent ones has been a disappointment - to my palate it is very homogenized Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and nothing as interesting as Silver Oak was a couple of decades ago. However, it was a decent crowd pleaser amongst our guests.

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  7/22/2023 - Goldstone wrote: 88 Points

  Drank contemplatively over several hours at home on a Saturday night. Totally opaque ruby-black colour lightening to transparency on the meniscus. Visually, in the light, it lacks any reflected brightness and presages a dull wine. The nose has an acceptable Napa Cab Blend character with some ground coffee bean elements and ripe belly-filling black-red currant fruit being the main elements on the palate. I used to love Silver Oak a couple of decades ago but they seemed to have homogenised a good and previously characterful wine into something ‘meh’ in its price range. Will be a crowd-pleaser at a good barbecue….which is the perfect time to offload it, I think. 88

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  7/2/2023 - docdavid Likes this wine: 91 Points

  At or just past peak. Tannins present with dark berries and oak.

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