How Silver Oak Celebrates Harvest Season

The making of a vintage is about far more than picking and pressing grapes. The coalescing of a team, the coming together of a community, the hustle to conquer the unexpected, and the going above and beyond—again and again.

Every year at the end of harvest, our entire staff celebrates the culmination of months of hard work with a lunch of ribeye steaks and Caesar salad prepared by our (ever-hardworking) winemaking team. You’d better believe there’s wine in the steak sauce! Called the Pressing Lunch, in honor of our last tanks being pressed off grape skins, it is a time to pause for a moment to savor delicious food and wine with friends and is accompanied by many a harvest story.

As we gather for lunch, perhaps what we’re looking forward to the most is the joy and laughter that come with the sharing of tradition. The telling of funny harvest stories. The recognition of our stellar and deeply committed winemaking team. The celebration of another vintage. And (if we’re lucky) entertaining impromptu staff performances. Our singers (and, um, non-singers) love to put on a show.

It goes without saying that we have many reasons to be thankful.

Life is a (complex, beautiful, rich, and robust) Cabernet.