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. RP
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