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Alexander Valley

Alexander Valley is an American Viticultural Area just north of Healdsburg, in Sonoma County. It was granted AVA status in 1984, with amendments made in subsequent years. The Russian River flows through the valley, and the region was named for Cyrus Alexander, a 19th century landowner and grape grower. The AVA includes 15,000 vineyard acres, much of it rich, alluvial soil layered on a bed of gravel, somewhat similar to many vineyards in Bordeaux. Alexander Valley is sheltered from marine weather by the low hills northeast of Healdsburg, though it is often shrouded in the morning fog coming off the Russian River. Some of the earliest commercial winemaking in the area started in the 1880s, when immigrants formed the Italian Swiss Colony cooperative at Asti. The region made jug wines until the 1960s and 1970s, when a new wave of quality-minded producers started estates. Today Alexander Valley is home to some of California’s most admired wineries, including Simi, Stonestreet and the Francis Ford Coppola Winery. Silver Oak Cellars, though based in Napa Valley, has a second winery in Alexander Valley where it makes Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Many grapes do well in the Alexander Valley, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc and Zinfandel.

1986 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  92   

1987 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  93   

1987 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  93   

2002 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

RP  90   

2010 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

1996 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 6.0ltr

Light label condition issue; Light case condition issue

RP  92   
ST  87-90   

1999 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 6.0ltr

RP  90-92   
ST  87-90   

2001 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 6.0ltr

RP  90   
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2003 Jordan Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 6.0ltr

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill

1994 Stonestreet Merlot

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

1989 Alexander Valley Vineyards Wetzel Family Estate Bottled Merlot

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue