Silkwood Wines has earned its place on www.santacruzwines.com with it's fabulous unique quality and boutique-style philosophy of hand harvesting, hand sorting, and minimal wine making intervention.

Silkwood produces Award Winning Petite Sirah, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay.

By practicing an usual procedure - thinning and dropping (literally to the ground) clusters at version (fruit softening), rich and intensely flavored wine is produced. Approximately 25% of the fruit during harvest is dropped in the Silkwood vineyard and then a number of different toasted oak wood inserts are used to compliment the wine - this produces a unique flavor that terms the Silkwood trait.

Silkwood hand harvests and hand sorts all varietals removing any clusters with greenies, pinkos, raisins and dry leaves which produces their double gold medal winning Petite Sirah - A favorite for all who try it!

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Red Duet - Cabernet/Syrah - NV - Stanislaus County

Red Duet has a rich, round mouth feel with a very smooth finish on the back of the palate.

This blend is a Red Duet because the Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah, all from Silkwood vineyards, are in perfect harmony.

60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Syrah. A perfect Red Duet from hand harvested, hand sorted mature grapes. A medium bodied wine, the Red Duet finished very clean and smooth on the back palate and pairs well with spicy foods and barbecued meats. Alcohol 13.5%

$17.00 SOLD OUT

Huge in the mouth and our focus is on smooth finish on the back palate. The scores of 98 points are indicative of our quality wine making process and wood treatment.

This superb Syrah is hand crafted to reflect the natural impact of California soils and water from the vineyard near Modesto. Special attention was made to the fruit during the growing season. A special wood system added to Silkwood's fine barrels imparts a rich smokiness to this wine. Alcohol 14.3%

$25.00

Petite Sirah - 2007 - Stanislaus County

**San Francisco Chronicle Double Gold Medal & Best of Show Winner**

Big, Black, Bold and Beautiful. From Silkwood's Vineyards in Modesto, Stanislaus County, this superb wine contains contains layers of mature fruit, modest tannins, and a good oak flavor for a well balanced wine.

Truly the smoothest finishing Petite Silkwood has produced since beginning Petite’s in 1988. Recently won both Best of Show and Double Gold at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. Alcohol 13.5%

$39.00

Simply put, one the the best if not the best wine currently availble from California's Central Valley. 100 cases made.

Aged 42 months in tight grain French Oak, especially imported by Silkwood.

Cellar while it's still available.

$120.00

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