Hi All. I hope you all had an excellent weekend with family and friends. I enjoyed a really nice dinner at my sister and brother-in-law’s house Saturday night with a really good friend and my boyfriend. My sister, the quintessential host, grilled some really good steaks. Quintessential is a complex word that makes me look smarter to cover up the simple grammatical errors. Hey Wikileaks – it’s all in the open here. I brought a great wine to complement the dinner. Silver Oak, you see, produces a great wine most any year. We enjoyed a 2012 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. I opened it and let it breathe a bit before we poured it and that really brought it out well. It has a true oak flavor with essences of slight berry and coffee and/or chocolate. It is a bold Cabernet, but doesn’t linger too long on the tongue, so folks who are not used to a Cabernet would still enjoy it. This is a significantly-priced wine at around $74 per bottle, but well worth it for good family and friends..or just…you. Silver Oak only makes Cabernet Sauvignon, either the Napa or Alexander Valley blends. You’ll find them on many restaurant wine lists, in many grocery stores, and wine stores. The Napa blends are usually more expensive at over $150 per bottle. Silver Oak is a pretty consistent wine, so you can’t go wrong if you want to treat yourself and others with a more expensive wine. You just need to weigh that purchase against a new pair of shoes. After a couple of glasses of Silver Oak, the shoes you need don’t seem as important, so… On that note, have a great week!
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