Value Napa Valley ?-Silverado Vineyards Block Blend Napa Sauvignon Blanc 2025

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Hey welcome Domain Dave CheapWinefinder.com. That's us. And this is me. And I got a kind of an upscale value wine again, like we said we're gonna do in November, December. This was from Costco and it was $12.99. Let me grab the bottle so I can it's the Silverado Vineyards Block Blend, Napa Valley Sauvignon Block 2025. Um Silverado Vineyards today is part of the Foley family group of wines. They have some really nice wines. It is located in Stag's Leaf. Um right just below Yountville, they said. This is an estate wine. Uh they have several vineyards. They also have, and this one's not on their website. They have a nice website, but the single vineyard um Savion Blanc is on the website, and this one's not. I don't know, it's because of Costco bought out what was left of what they had, and they said they just removed it because they didn't need to sell it anymore, or or what the reason is. But this is an estate vineyard and uh 100% state wine. Um but it's probably in multiple uh Napa Valley sub-AVIAs, because it's uh almost it's AVIs, AVI AVA's because it says Napa Valley on the uh label and not a particular sub-AVA, which is not a problem for a $12.99 wine. It got it it gets 90 points by the big uh wine gr uh magazines. I'm gonna take a sip. I don't think we're in uh New Zealand anymore. This is actually $13.9 in the alcohol, which is a bit high for a uh Savion Blanc, but that's Napa Valley for you. You can get to be 100 degrees there sometimes. Um good vineyards. Um the the Silverado Vineyards um was started by the Miller family in the 70s, and it goes back long before them. And in the 70s, they had to redo the vineyards. They had to they had fallen on hard times and um well, maybe like the last three, four years now. Bowley family wines, and if you check out their wines, they got a really nice portfolio. So this is uh this is upscale, but it's not expensive. $12.99 at Casco is good, it's a good price. I mean, uh I I was looking through there and we just did a nap of Valley Savion Blanc, uh, one of those Trader Joe's grand reserves or whatever, and that was $11. This is a buck more for the actual vineyard making it for you, and you know who the vineyard is. Not that uh the Trader Joe's one was bad at it or any means, but it is nice to know what you're drinking, even though a bargain will give me a good price and I won't ask questions. So I'm gonna take another sip. It's smooth, it's balanced, it's subtle, it has some like um on the nose. There might be a little green pepper, but you know, maybe nectarine, uh, melon, peach, grapefruit, all those, you know, all the good Savon Blacks flavors. And this will go with Thanksgiving. You know, this one has enough acidity that it will cut through anything, won't overpower turkey. Um, and it does have those harvest flavors that kind of go with the season. Though this is just a good uh sipping wine, it has a different label than all the other Silverado vineyard wines, so I don't know what that's all about. Um, but it's a 2025 uh vintage, it's brand new, and it makes it a young wine too, since it was just made last year. Savion Blanc doesn't need a lot of aging when it's made in a in a younger style where they just uh you know they they crush the grapes, they put it in a um they put it in stainless steel tanks, they decide which temperature they want to ferment it at, they decide which uh yeast or combination yeast to bring out the flavors, and then they uh age it for a little bit. Doesn't take a lot to get a good wine. It's one of the those wines that come together rather quickly and deliciously. I'm gonna take another sip. This is you know, I don't give stars, I don't give grades, I dudes take sips. I mean, at least I think that's the most honest. So I got when I got a glass of wine in my hand, if I want to drink it, I do. I don't have to remember what points are, and if this actually sits in the A class or the B classes, I can't remember what last week was. But here we go. This tastes good. Yeah, nice and balanced. You know, um, even New Zealand wines are getting away from those spiky wines they had, though they were fun, but some of them were kind of mad dog wines. They're just like uh they were challenging you. Not this one. This one is uh um elegant, kind of elegant. It might have semillon in there. Uh I don't have tasting or production notes from the from the website of the winery because they don't have it on the website anymore anymore. But uh there are other um there are other Savillon Blanc yet, like two percent uh uh semillon, and that's uh another white grape grown in Bordeaux, or and they are in you usually get um Savillon Blanc in a small amount of semillon on Bordeaux wines, and Napa Valley would which does you know Gabonet Sauvignon or low and those things. They do do Bordeaux wines there, they do it very well. So here we go. So this is a nice wine. Good sipping Savillon Blanc. This is a wine that goes, it just it's well made, it's balanced, it's got length, it's got the acidity is in the pockets, right where it would be. It doesn't bite, it just keeps on going, and it is a nice wine. What you know, and it's $12.99 from um from a fancy vineyard that's been around for decades, and and from a really good wine group that makes that has great wines. So, what more can you ask for? This is the Silverado Vineyards Black Blend Um Mappa Valley, Savignon Block 2025. Black blends means every these high-end vineyards, they have blocks, different sections. Um, and here they just took different sections of different vineyards and blended them together, which actually there's different characteristics in each one, and it gives you a better wine because you're getting you're putting all these things together and they blend in it. And blending is the sci uh is the magic of wine. Yeah, everything in fermentation is uh science, blending's magic. So there you go. So adios, keep it cheap. Domain Dave, cheaperwinefetter.com. I've got a fancy bubbly. Now I'll be talking to you a couple days. Adios, bye bye.