Silverado GEO Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
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Rich, concentrated, and well-knit layers of black cherry liquor, cocoa, nutmeg, toasted oak, and tea leaves. Dense tannins and great acidity provide balance and structure to this full-bodied Cabernet for the ages.
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The fruit for this wine, which aged 18 months in French, American, and Hungarian oak (43% new), is from the winery’s Mt. George Vineyard in southeastern Napa Valley, where the cooler climate and gravelly volcanic soils add depth to its eloquent character: The name GEO is derived from not only this home vineyard but the root word for earth. The sweet, mineral-based aromas of the terroir are unmasked along with alluring scents of dark chocolate and black cherry. Intense flavors of black olive and roasted coffee are gentled by a creamy roundness. Luscious from start to finish.
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COMMENTARY: The 2018 Silverado Vineyards GEO Cabernet Sauvignon is driven and persistent on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers aromas and flavors of savory spices, dried herbs, chalk, and black fruit. Enjoy it with a well-seasoned, oven-baked rack of lamb. (Tasted: February 9, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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From the gravelly hillside of this historic estate vineyard at the base of Mt. George, the source of the volcanic soils, GEO is a blend of cabernet sauvignon and merlot, with small amounts of petit verdot, cabernet franc and malbec. The wine has the coolness of Coombsville fruit: a full-on sour- cherry saturation that makes the tannins feel sweet. Brisk and vibrant, it’s a wine for beef carpaccio.
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With savory earthiness beckoning in the form of cedar, chalk and crushed rock, this wine is grippy in tannin and structured. Blue fruit is dominant on the midpalate, with nuanced oak and black pepper on the finish.
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Nestled in the hills on the North West side of the Stags Leap District, Silverado Vineyards Winery has been a favorite wine country destination and home to some of the Napa Valley’s most-recognized wines for almost forty years. In 1981, Ron and Diane Disney Miller and her mother, Lillian Disney, established Silverado Vineyards to make wines from the historic sites of the estate the family owns. The winery was named in honor of the Silverado Vineyard, one of the first four in Stags Leap District to plant Cabernet in the 1960s. The vineyard pays homage to the abandoned mining town at the top of the Valley which also inspired the name of the famous Silverado Trail where Silverado Vineyards and other iconic wineries of the Stags Leap District are situated. Silverado Vineyards owns five other storied vineyards across Napa Valley’s top AVAs: Miller Ranch, Mt. George, Soda Creek Ranch (Borreo), Firetree, and Vineburg. All of Silverado’s wines are estate-grown, produced and bottled. Winemaker Jon Emmerich is only the second lead winemaker in the history of Silverado Vineyards and celebrated his 30th vintage with the winery in 2020. Jon has grown Silverado’s reputation for quality and consistency along with his colleague Elena Franceschi, who has been Silverado’s associate winemaker for nearly 25 years. When Diane Miller passed away in 2013, Ron Miller became president of the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Family Museum, and chairman of Silverado Vineyards until his passing in 2019. Diane and Ron’s children and grandchildren proudly continue to carry their family’s legacy forward as the owners of Silverado Vineyards.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
Situated in the southeastern corner of Napa Valley in the Vaca range, the vineyards of the Coombsville AVA enjoy a long growing season mitigated by cool, San Pablo Bay fog.