2013 SILVERADO Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
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S$13397
Vintage: 2013
Region: Napa Valley
Country: USA
Winemaker Notes
Dark rich fruits, black cherry, blackberry, and plum aromas. Full rich mid-palate with broad tannins and a medium to long finish.
Blend: 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot
About Winery
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.
Dark rich fruits, black cherry, blackberry, and plum aromas. Full rich mid-palate with broad tannins and a medium to long finish.
Blend: 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot
94 Decanter
A refined and memorable nose shows layers of blackcurrant, damson and black cherry in a powerful and forward style. A massive wine, but it is all in harmony and well integrated. Delightful.
93 James Suckling
A polished and pretty 2013 cabernet that delivers blueberry, slate and blackberry aromas and flavors. Full-bodied yet reserved and tight. Drink or hold.
93 Wine & Spirits
Jon Emmerich blends this wine from three estate vineyards—Stag’s Leap, Mt. George and Oakville Station. It’s a deeply mineral-inflected wine, with chipped-stone tannins that are neither pushed nor heavily extracted, but gracious in their taut structure. The purple fruit may be concentrated, but it also has a pretty side, hinting at redder tones and green-olive salinity underneath. Probably best enjoyed over the next five years, this is built for roast lamb.
