Silenus Oak Knoll Estate Cabernet 2019Winery notes: "The Silenus Estate Cabernet Sauvignon comes from our estate vineyard located in the Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley (OKD). The OKD is one of the most diverse growing regions in the Napa Valley. The close proximity to the San Pablo Bay provides the fruit with warm days and cool nights. It has a perfect convergence of growing conditions, the mildest climate in the Napa Valley, alluvial fan soils that provide the right balance of

with his considerable resources he turned the small farmhouse and its garden into an organically farmed vineyard with a LEED-certified gravity-flow winery

The wine is lean with the sense of being utterly refreshing

Gerard traces his history in Sancerre at the small village of Chavignol back to 1380

This lets you do it one glass at a time

"Gorgeous aromas of crushed blackberries and blueberries

befitting of a spritely Bordeaux

I put cut heads of radicchio with a “tray” of tin foil holding them away from the coals

even growing season

going on to specialize in vineyard-designate wines

"Always the first 1er cru that is ready to be bottled (in July)

dusty mineral edge that feels firm and tactile—it grips

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