Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

Silver Oak began over a handshake between two friends with a bold vision: focus on one varietal, Cabernet Sauvignon, aged exclusively in American oak and worthy of cellaring for decades to come.

Ray Twomey Duncan, a Colorado entrepreneur who began investing in California vineyards in the late 1960s, and Justin Meyer, a Christian Brothers-trained winemaker, co-founded Silver Oak out of a Napa Valley dairy barn in 1972, producing only 1,000 cases of their inaugural vintage. 

The 2007 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon has moderately deep, beautiful dark red color with no bricking present. Along with some toasty vanilla, the nose reveals notes of earth, soil and berries. This is a particularly broad and generous wine on the palate with slightly less acidity than other Silver Oak wines of this period.