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!

• "Epicure. On Silver Mountain." By Christina Waters, Santa Cruz Weekly, May 19, 2010.
  
  
• "Discover: Surf City Vintners" By Mary Lindsay, Vine Times, June/July, 2010.
  
  
• "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
  
  
• 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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Our Tasting Rooms

• Winery Tasting Room Now Open!
  Saturday afternoons, 12-17:00. No appointment needed!
  Member, The Summit Wineries group
  
  
  
• Surf City Tasting Room in Santa Cruz Open
  for tasting Thursday through Sunday, 12:00 - 17:00.
  Member, Surf City Vintners
  
  
  
  More Info
  
  

Upcoming Events

• Watsonville Air Show & Fly-In
  Labor Day Weekend, 3-5 September
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• Capitola Art & Wine Festival
  11-12 September, 10:00-18:00
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• Gourmet Grazing on the Green
  25 September, 12:00-17:00
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• Los Gatos Wine Walk
  11-12 September, 14:00-17:00
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• More Events...
  
  

Summer Celebration Specials

• 2002 Alloy, by the case
  $199.00 + $1 shipping. (savings of 36%, or $112.00)
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• Trio of Pinot
  1 bottle each: 2006 Miller Hill, Muns Vineyard and Tondre Grapefield Pinots
  $84 plus $1 shipping (savings of 30% or $24.00)
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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
  Purchase Syrah
  
  
• 2002 Alloy wins Silver Medal at 2009 San Francisco Int'l. Wine Competition
  Purchase Alloy
  
  
• See more accolades