Tradition, quality and craft.

• Handcrafted, using the best of old world traditions and new world science.
  
  
• 0rganically grown in harmony with mother nature.
  
  
• Produced in small lots of premium wine that capture delicate nuances of flavor.
  
  
• Made with a passion for quality, complexity, purity and richness of flavor - this is the heart of Silver Mountain.
  
  

Silver Mountain's Organic, Sustainable
and Green Practices

Learn more about Silver Mountain's certified organic estate vineyard and our sustainable vineyard practices.

Silver Mountain's 'Triple Green' installation includes a 6000sf roof and 46kw solar array - one of the largest solar arrays in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It supports three major 'green' benefits. Read more here.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

• "Carve Your Own Trail in the Santa Cruz Mountains", San Jose Mercury News, 26 August, 2009
  
  
• "Solar array provides energy, shade and harvests rainwater", Santa Cruz Sentinel, 22 August, 2009
  
  
• Akeena Solar Converts Silver Mountain Vineyards to 100 Percent Solar Energy: Press Release, July 1, 2009
  Also see story on SolarServer.com
  
  
• Santa Cruz Mountains winemaker living his dream, Examiner.com, 14 May, 2009
  
  
• The Varied Pinots of the Santa Cruz Mountains, San Jose Mercury News, April 15, 2009
  
  
• Pinot File, March 2009
  
  
• Silver Mountain Vineyard’s Chief Winemaker, Good Times, 11 March, 2009
  
  
• Celebrating 30 Years of Fine Wine in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Mountain Network News, January 2009
  
  
• "A Growing Passion: Santa Cruz Mountains vintner has poured himself into his winemaking for 30 years", Los Gatos Weekender, 16 January, 2009
  
  
• Feature on Jerold O'Brien and Silver Mountain, Touring & Tasting Magazine, Spring/Summer 2009
  
  
• See more on our Press page
  
  

Introducing: Pinot-Only Wine Club, the 'Flying Aces' Club
Featuring the Pinot Noirs of both Silver Mountain and Sonnet Wine Cellars

Get some of the best Pinot on the planet with our new Pinot-only Wine Club. Combine two masters of wine magic, the poet and the pilot, Tony Craig of Sonnet and Jerold O'Brien of Silver Mountain, and this wine club puts poetry into flight. This is the only Wine Club for Sonnet, and the only way to get Sonnet Pinots shipped to your door!
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New Santa Cruz
Tasting Room!

• Surf City Tasting Room Now Open for tasting Thursday through Sunday, 12:00 - 17:00.
  
  Thank you to all our loyal fans for making the Grand Opening such a celebration.
  
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Upcoming Events

• Winemakers Dinner with Jerold O'Brien at Vino Locale, Palo Alto
  29 January
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• Wine & Chocolate at Surf City
  20 February
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• Ultimate Winemaker's Dinner
  23 February
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• Pinot Pathways
  27 March
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• Pinot Paradise
  28 March
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• Passport Day, and Silver Mountain is open!
  At both the Winery AND our new Surf City Tasting Room in Santa Cruz
  16 January
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• More Events...
  
  

30th Anniversary Specials

• 2002 Alloy & 2005 Syrah, by the case
  $235.20 + $1 shipping. (savings of 30%, or $100.80)
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Recent Awards

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  Double Gold Medal
  2006 Pinot Noir, Muns Vineyard
  "Delicate strawberry and rosewater fragrances, and a fine fragile structure. Confectionary flavors of ribbon candy and cotton candy are lingering and focused, finishing dense with allspice. Wonderful poise and length.)"
  
  Silver Medal
  2006 Pinot Noir, Miller Hill Vineyard
  
  Read on AppellationAmerica.com
  
  
• Our Pinot Noirs win Gold & Silver Medals in 2008 Pacific Rim, San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County, Dallas Morning News, New World Wine, San Diego & Pacific Rim Wine Competitions. For a full list click here (pdf)
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• 2005 Syrah wins Gold Medals at the 2008 Long Beach Grand Cru & 2009 Riverside Int'l. Wine Competitions, and Silver Medals at the 2009 San Francisco Chronicle and San Diego Int'l. Wine Competitions
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• 2002 Alloy wins Silver Medal at 2009 San Francisco Int'l. Wine Competition
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• See more accolades