2020 was a huge fire year and I would imagine that is why it is discounted. I don’t believe Alexander Valley saw heavy direct impact, but there were still abundant concerns about smoke drift from nearby fires. It’s probably a low risk but I don’t know if anybody feels confident calling it zero.
Many collectors have categorically avoided the 2020 vintage for that reason, and that is on top of a declining sales trend for California wine. You’ll come across a lot of deals like this on hard to sell 2020 inventory if you look for them.
riketycriks
Silver joke
Intelligent_Hand4583
Shit, grab two for me please.
blkwrxwgn
The fact that this sub downvotes people who say Silver Oak is shit is very funny. Especially a 2020 Napa vintage. Go drink your caymus and enjoy diabetes.
PEACHYipa888
Meet you at a Canadian border get me two please
grudgingvolunteer
No thank you
sid_loves_wine
Actual sane answer: yes, 2020 was an infamous year for smoke damage, but many producers avoided the issue in CA (it was Oregon that got it really bad- CA is more producer to producer.) there is only one CellarTracker note right now for this vintage and cuveé, but it describes it as a good wine in a difficult vintage. I’m not familiar with Silver Oak myself, but I have enough wine pals who say it’s genuine, serious stuff (not at all like a shitty Caymus-style wine) to trust that it might be pretty good. They use American oak for their wine, not super common in Napa/Sonoma, which is often sort of a powerful cedary/coconut kind of tone (but again I haven’t tried their wines.)
Buy one if you’re curious, and open it right away. If you loved it, buy more. at this price I’d grab one out of curiosity, even from a poor vintage. A producer like Silver Oak can afford to skip truly terrible vintages.
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2020 is the smoke taint year isn’t it?
2020-2022 had a bunch of smoke.
2020 was a huge fire year and I would imagine that is why it is discounted. I don’t believe Alexander Valley saw heavy direct impact, but there were still abundant concerns about smoke drift from nearby fires. It’s probably a low risk but I don’t know if anybody feels confident calling it zero.
Many collectors have categorically avoided the 2020 vintage for that reason, and that is on top of a declining sales trend for California wine. You’ll come across a lot of deals like this on hard to sell 2020 inventory if you look for them.
Silver joke
Shit, grab two for me please.
The fact that this sub downvotes people who say Silver Oak is shit is very funny. Especially a 2020 Napa vintage. Go drink your caymus and enjoy diabetes.
Meet you at a Canadian border get me two please
No thank you
Actual sane answer: yes, 2020 was an infamous year for smoke damage, but many producers avoided the issue in CA (it was Oregon that got it really bad- CA is more producer to producer.) there is only one CellarTracker note right now for this vintage and cuveé, but it describes it as a good wine in a difficult vintage. I’m not familiar with Silver Oak myself, but I have enough wine pals who say it’s genuine, serious stuff (not at all like a shitty Caymus-style wine) to trust that it might be pretty good. They use American oak for their wine, not super common in Napa/Sonoma, which is often sort of a powerful cedary/coconut kind of tone (but again I haven’t tried their wines.)
Buy one if you’re curious, and open it right away. If you loved it, buy more. at this price I’d grab one out of curiosity, even from a poor vintage. A producer like Silver Oak can afford to skip truly terrible vintages.