John Howard

Harvest production at Hirsch and Cobb Wineries

9.0

12 cases. Super tart. Interesting. Fermented with a bit of Pinot too. — 3 months ago

Peter van den Besselaar

8.9

Vintage 2020 — 5 years ago

Marcus Weber

8.9

Lightly fresh and very fine fruits, Pear, very clear!!
Dazu: Ente - Sauerkraut- Salbei-Kartoffelpüree — 6 years ago

Matt Austin

Owner/Winemaker, Grosgrain Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA

9.2

Structure is fully resolved and you are left with pure zin fruit and spice. Beautifully aged old-vine zin. Sadly Silver Oak acquired this vineyard in 2012 and ripped out the old vines to plant more Cab Sauv for their Alexander Valley bottling. Hideous label, though. — 9 years ago

Seth Bechis

9.9

Delicious and amazingly smooth with Purple Haze Goat cheese by cypress grove chèvre — 11 years ago

Fred Calatayud

9.1

Another $10+ every day drinker that is impressive for the money — 13 years ago

Jim Nelson

9.1

Lovely rosé, stands up to a ripe cheese plate — 4 years ago

Jake Hajer

9.3

This is a Silver Oak, employee only wine. The winery doesn’t exist- when silver oak bought the vineyard they were not allowed to get rid of the name or rip up the zin vines. Vines planted in 1877. This has aged beautifully. Was made in a classy way…not over blown alc or tannins. Medium body, clean, distinctive exotic forrest floor. — 5 years ago

Erik Longabardi

9.3

Sensational nose. Baked apricots. So much going on here but really enjoyable. Lightly honeyed, full bodied but without weight. Long finish. Joyful. — 7 years ago

markus gould

9.3

fantastic unconventional zweigelt, grown on schist in styrian sausal area from bio dynamic rebel karl schnabel.

what power, lenght and vivid draught!
exciting stuff!!

vintage 2012, bottle opened one week before. no sulphur, no additions at all.
you might wanna google s.a.i.n.s. — 11 years ago

Wesley Box

9.5

So sad this vineyard was torn out by Silver Oak to plant more swag cab . My last Sausal Sangiovese; it had great bang for the buck, and stood tall against the rest of Cal-ital's Sangiovese produced domestically — 12 years ago

Andrew Holod

National Sales Grapes of Spain

8.9

Pungent lime leaf, wet river stone. Zesty, firma acids. Fresh and long. Tasty but not particularly complex. — 4 years ago

Chris Bensick

9.0

A real blast from the past, a 40 year old wine made from 90 year old vines....gobbled up by Silver Oak in 2012, the wine is no longer being made. A full bodied wine for its time (14.2%abv), this is still tasting young, ripe but not overripe. Last bottle......New Year’s Day 2021. — 5 years ago

mo hallay

9.5

crispy light — 9 years ago

Dan Braswell

9.0

Pepper spice and everything nice — 11 years ago

Anthony Biagi

Winemaker Hourglass, Owner Patria

8.9

Always interesting. DD = demostene ranch in Alexander valley (sausal) old vines they say. A touch of eukalptus but a fun drink — 11 years ago

with Matt