Winemaker Notes
Concentrated layers of black cherry, cocoa, and nutmeg fill the nose upon first pour. The palate is balanced with dense tannins and acidity to provide structure to this full-bodied Cabernet.
Pair with carne asada tacos with salsa rojo.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Fresh and floral with blackcurrant and some stone aromas that follow through to a medium to full body. Fine tannins and a long, linear finish. Beautiful wine all together. Try after 2025.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Silverado's firmly structured 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Geo, from its estate vineyard in Coombsville, features sage, cassis, black cherry and cedar notes. Medium to full-bodied and marked by drying tannins at the moment, this needs a few years to soften, but it should drink well through 2040.
Rating: 92+ -
Wine Spectator
A distinctive version, with dark açaí berry, plum and fig notes forming the core, while a deeply inlaid, cool cast iron note provides the spine. Subtle spice and chaparral hints dot the finish.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon GEO is similarly deep purple-hued and offers medium-bodied aromas and flavors of black and blue fruits, charcoal, graphite, and ripe tobacco. This focused, balanced, elegant 2019 has good mid-palate depth and sweet tannins.
Rating: 90+
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.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
Situated in the southeastern corner of Napa Valley in the Vaca range, the vineyards of the Coombsville AVA enjoy a long growing season mitigated by cool, San Pablo Bay fog.