Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- United States
- Alexander Valley
- Cabernet Sauvignon
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 21
- Community notes
- 583
- Merchant offers
- 231
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 92/ 1002020 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 89/ 100583 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £73per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- Drinking window
- 2005–2015past its window2001 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 1,849 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Californian Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Red.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.3 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, vanilla, tobacco, chocolate, cedar
- Black fruit · blackberry, plum, dark fruit, cassis, black cherry
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, minerals
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
- Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, eucalyptus, cinnamon
- Yeast and lees · cheese, cream, oil, banana, cheesy
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
1993One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 202192drinkersunit not stated
- 202092critic£73 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 201993critic£86 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 201887drinkersunit not stated
- 201792critic£68 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
- 201687drinkers
- 201592drinkers£94 / 75cl3000 ml in-bond trade, July 2021
- 201485drinkers£97 / 75cl6000 ml in-bond trade, May 2020
- 201390drinkersunit not stated
- 201283drinkersunit not stated
- 2007unit not stated
- 200687critic
- 200589critic
- 200189critic£55 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016
- 199989critic
- 199790drinkersunit not stated
- 1994unit not stated
- 199390critic£91 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
- 1988unit not stated
- 198789critic
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2019
- 93 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2001
- £55 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | £73 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026 |
| 2019 | £86 | 92.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026 |
| 2017 | £68 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023 |
| 2015 | £94 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, July 2021 |
| 2014 | £97 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6000 ml in-bond trade, May 2020 |
| 2001 | £55 | 89.3 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016 |
| 1993 | £91 | 90 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016 |
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