http://palatepress.com/2012/11/wine/15-versus-95000-silver-oak-and-the-question-of-tastemaker-opinion/ The Online Wine Magazine Sun, 19 May 2013 21:06:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://palatepress.com/2012/11/wine/15-versus-95000-silver-oak-and-the-question-of-tastemaker-opinion/#comment-44905 John Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:34:09 +0000 http://palatepress.com/?p=21342#comment-44905 I think Silver Oak’s entrenchment on the pricier end of wine lists everywhere for the past couple decades has a lot to do with it… consumers that are laypeople when it comes to wine, that don’t read wine mags let alone watch vaynerchuck or read wine blogs, they’ve seen Silver Oak cab on lists at every steakhouse they go to for $300 or whatever for the past 20 years and assume it’s great cab.

]]> http://palatepress.com/2012/11/wine/15-versus-95000-silver-oak-and-the-question-of-tastemaker-opinion/#comment-44031 A Tale Of Two Twomeys (Twomey Recent Releases) | 1 Wine Dude Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:05:10 +0000 http://palatepress.com/?p=21342#comment-44031 [...] In many ways, Twomey is the anti-SO: single-varieties versus blending, French oak versus American, small production (about six thousand cases produced of each varietal bottling) versus large volumes, playing up single-vineyard and vintage expression versus aiming for consistency in flavor and quality year-on year. [...]

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