Saturday, August 3, 2013

Next Release Day: 2009 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Our Napa Valley Winery

Drop in for a tasting and stay for a tour. Our family winery features a modern tasting bar, food pairings and stunning views everywhere you look.

Napa Valley Winery
915 Oakville Crossroad
Oakville, CA 94562
Tasting Room: (707) 942-7022
To make a reservation, please call (707) 942-7026 or email us at tours@silveroak.com.

Hours
Monday – Saturday, 9am – 5pm
Sunday, 11am – 5pm
We are closed on some holidays.

We’d Love to Show You Around

Thank you for visiting our Napa Valley Winery Visit Us page. We would love to host you at our Napa Valley Winery and share our wines with you. We offer a variety of special tastings and tours to provide you with the best experience possible. Reservations are required for some of these tastings, so please see below for more details.

To make a reservation, please call (707) 942-7026 or email us at tours@silveroak.com.

If you need to cancel your reservation, we kindly ask that you contact us no later than 8am the day of your reservation. Failure to cancel by the requested time will result in payment (50% of the bookings) for the scheduled reservation. You may reach us Monday – Friday at (707) 942–7026 and Saturdays and Sundays at (707) 942-7022.

Take the Tour

Follow our wine from vine to bottle.
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Current Release Tasting

Tasting

Current Release Tasting

Mon – Sat, 9am – 5pm; Sun 11am – 5pm
$20 per person*
Join us for a taste of our 2008 Napa Valley and 2008 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignons. Your tasting includes a complimentary Silver Oak wine glass. When purchasing a current release wine, $10 of your tasting fee will be applied to your purchase. This tasting applies to parties of 7 or smaller. For parties of 8 and more, please refer to Private Tastings.
*Complimentary for Club Twomey Duncan Family members.

Private Tastings and Tours

Tasting

Private Tastings and Tours

Mon – Sat, 9:30am – 3pm; Sun 11am – 3pm
$30 per person, for parties up to 30, for larger groups call for price quote
Reservations held in advance by credit card

Our Private Tastings and Tours begin at $30 per person ($240 minimum). With a glass in hand, guests will be taken on a private guided tour of our winery while tasting our current release Napa Valley and Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignons. Subject to availability and advance reservations required.

The Silver Tour and Taste

Tasting

The Silver Tour and Taste

Mon – Sat, 10am and 1pm;
Sun. 11am and 1pm
1 hour, $20 per person*
Reservation required

While tasting our Napa Valley and Alexander Cabernets, we’ll show you around our winery and give you a little history.
*Complimentary for Club Twomey Duncan Family members.

The Silver Wine & Food Pairing

Tasting & Food Pairing

The Silver Wine & Food Pairing

Mon – Thurs, 2pm
45 minutes, $60 per person
Reservations held in advance by credit card

Enjoy a delicious, seasonal food pairing with a tasting of our Alexander Valley and Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons, Twomey Napa Valley Merlot and Twomey Pinot Noir. Our resident chefs use local ingredients, including herbs and vegetables from our garden, to create each pairing menu. This tasting is held in a private room and is limited to eight people.

Napa Valley Cabernet Vertical Tasting

Tasting

Napa Valley Cabernet Vertical Tasting

Fridays, 10:30am; 11:30am; 1:30pm; 2:30pm
1 hour, $50 per person
Reservations held in advance by credit card

Experience a vertical tasting of our Napa Valley Cabernet from six different vintages, beginning with the 2003 and ending with the 2008. This tasting is held in a private room and is limited to eight people.

Current Release Tasting

Tasting

Alexander Valley Cabernet Vertical Tasting

Currently Unavailable as our 2003-2008 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Collectors are Sold Out. This tasting will be available after the release of our 2009 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon on August 3, 2013, with the first tasting offered on August 9, 2013.

Current Release Tasting

Tasting

The Silver Oak - Twomey Experience

Mon – Sat, 10:30am & 1:30pm; Sun 11:30am – 1:30pm
45 minutes, 4 wines, $40 per person
Reservations held in advance by credit card

Experience the red wines that make up our family. Four wines from three varieties grown in two counties crafted with one goal – to produce delicious, elegant wines meant to be shared with family and friends. Savor our current releases of our Silver Oak Alexander Valley and Napa Valley Cabernets followed by Twomey Merlot and finishing with our Russian River Pinot Noir. While enjoying our wines we’ll show you around our winery and share our history.

 
 

Food and Wine Pairing

Our Silver Wine & Food Pairing gives you the opportunity to use your senses to experience delicious bites with our Silver Oak and Twomey wines. Chef Dominic uses local ingredients, including herbs and vegetables from our garden, to create a delicious seasonal menu.

Monday – Thursday, 2pm
45 minutes, $60 per person
Reservations held in advance by credit card.

Spring Food & Wine Pairing:

Twomey, Pinot Noir
Asparagus & Quail Egg Bruschetta

Cherry-wood Smoked Bacon & Lemon Aioli

Asparagus is often misunderstood and under used in food & wine pairings. The green flavor characteristics can overwhelm a wine. However when paired with rich umami flavored foods like eggs and bacon those same green characteristics take on an herbaceous aroma that highlight the fruit and oak characters in our Pinot Noir.

Twomey Merlot, Napa Valley
Lamb Gyro

Braised Lamb & Tzatziki Sauce

Here is a wine-country twist to a classic Greek-street food. Braised Lamb wrapped up in our house made flat bread, with creamy tzatziki sauce and garden lettuces. The rich flavors of braised lamb are able to stand up to the full bodied structure of Merlot. The creamy tzatziki sauce coats your palate to soften the tannins in the wine, while the lemon in the garden lettuces highlights the fruit characters of the wine.

Silver Oak, Alexander Valley
Foraged Mushroom Ragu

Soft Corn Polenta

Arancini are a Sicilian street food of little rice balls that are traditionally Locally foraged mushrooms are sautéed with shallots, garden sage, parsley & lemon. The forest-floor aromas compliment the earthy character of our Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon; while the herb & lemon give a contrasting pop.

Silver Oak, Napa Valley
Variety of Preserved Foods

Beef Bresaola, Duck Prosciutto, Goat Gouda, and Oakville Olives

We salted and seasoned a beef eye round, then slow cured it in our curing cellar. Liberty duck from Petaluma is slow cured in our cellar similarly to the Bresaola. The Goat gouda comes from Central Coast Creamery. The extended 12 month of aging give this cheese a higher salt content along with a balanced acid character. Our olives have been cured by using an ancient Roman method using left-over ash from our wood oven. The meats and olives all have a balance of protein, salt, fat, and acidity which make them a natural pairing to Cabernet Sauvignon.

Directions

Address:

915 Oakville Crossroad
Oakville, CA 94562
Tasting Room: (707) 942-7022
tours@silveroak.com

Downloadable directions (PDF)

From San Francisco/Golden Gate Bridge

  • Take Highway 101 North across the Golden Gate Bridge
  • Continue North on Highway 101 and exit Highway 37 Vallejo/Napa
  • Proceed for 7 miles to Highway 121
  • Turn left at Highway 121 Sonoma/Napa (Infineon Raceway will be on your left)
  • Bear right at the junction for Highway 12
  • Continue on Highway 12/121, the Carneros Highway
  • Turn left onto Highway 29 heading North towards Napa/Calistoga
  • Follow Highway 29 through Napa and Yountville
  • Oakville is located 3 miles north of Yountville
  • Turn right onto the Oakville Crossroad (the Oakville Grocery is on the corner)
  • Our driveway is 1 ½ miles on the right

From East Bay/Bay Bridge

  • Take Highway I-80 over the Bay Bridge
  • Cross the Carquinez Bridge
  • Exit Highway 37 Napa/Columbus Parkway; stay to the left
  • Turn right onto Sonoma Blvd./Highway 29 North towards Napa
  • Follow Highway 29 through Napa and Yountville
  • Oakville is located 3 miles north of Yountville
  • Turn right onto the Oakville Crossroad (the Oakville Grocery is on the corner)
  • Our driveway is 1 ½ miles on the right

From Sacramento

  • Take Highway I-80 West
  • Exit Highway 12 Napa/Sonoma
  • Turn right onto Highway 29 North towards Napa
  • Follow Highway 29 through Napa and Yountville
  • Oakville is located 3 miles north of Yountville
  • Turn right onto the Oakville Crossroad (the Oakville Grocery is on the corner)
  • Our driveway is 1 ½ miles on the right

The Story behind the Winery

Our Napa Valley winery in Oakville is the home of our Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and the original site of Silver Oak Cellars. Our location, midway between the Silverado Trail and the town of Oakville, provided the inspiration for the Silver Oak name.

A courtyard and fountain, anchored by Silver Oak’s iconic water tower, provide the entrance to the timber-framed tasting room where visitors will find a large stone fireplace, the Glass House Library displaying vintages dating back to the 1970s, a Chai with oak barrels and a History Gallery with memorabilia from our original building. The interior of the tasting room and the exterior of the winery are wrapped in hand-quarried limestone with a chipped face, reclaimed from an 1800s flour mill in Coffeeville, Kansas.