Silver Mountain Vineyards

One of the best wineries we visited in the Santa Cruz mountains. Beautiful views, excellent wines - especially the Pinots & Syrah - and very reasonably priced. Worth a visit on a Saturday when they have live music, nice weather and delicious oysters and wine… can’t be beat!

Great place in the lovely SC mountains,it’s a small and unpretentious winery with a great staff and a local legend owner/character named Gerald.wines are mostly solid especially the Pinots and their Bordeaux blends.our visit was that much better by having the wonderful Charlene serving us..she’s simply a gem of a lady,friendly and easy to be with-she alone is worth a visit….

lol! I’m going to leave an extremely honest review. First of all. Everyone that knows about silver Mountain winery knows that you go for the wine and not the aesthetics. Some people really enjoy that lack of pretension when First being introduced to wine. Out of all the different vineyards I’ve tasted at throughout the Santa Cruz mountains. I found their wine, consistent, and excellent. If you’re sensitive person? Be prepared. And don’t take him personally. I would say the owner is kind of the soup Nazi of wine tasting. Lol if you remember the old Seinfeld character. You know when you’re flying and you have those older stewardess that have just aged out, and are extremely unhappy, but just don’t wanna quit. But instead project there years of abuse and trauma or cantankerous nature onto the public? Well, that’s kind of him. He has nothing to prove, and he can’t be fir, and he pretty much says and does what he wants to. Lol. And good for him. i’m just warning you if you need to be mollycoddled or you think this is going to be like Napa? Give that idea up before you go. take yourself a nice picnic basket full of your favorite things and just enjoy the wine. And the view.

Good wine great view

Probably my favorite winery. Low key hold wine and a great view

One of the few wineries we had not tried in the Santa Cruz mountains. Really came for Bill the Oysterman. The facility is extremely run down with duct tape holding together many points of the faded awning we sat under as we watched the band. Staff (owners?) were rude and seemed unprepared for guests arriving (we had a pre-paid reservation but were told we didn’t. Wife had to prove it with email receipt. Parking attendant walked away mumbling something about how she didn’t know how it was possible as she had just checked her computer). No change available at the outside pouring table as the ‘cash box’ hadn’t arrived. Exact amounts or the overage was a ‘tip.’ The wine was substandard, in our opinion. But wine is subjective, so that is just our taste. We listened to a few songs and left. Won’t be back.

Jerold has a way with wine and it shows. All of his estate wines are organic and a solar system provides all of his power. The views are amazing from the winery too!This is a hidden gem! You must visit!!

Wonderful experience with Jerold. Love the Chardonnay, Rose and Pinot Noir. Thank you for being so accommodating.

The owner of the vineyard was a great host and we enjoyed the wine tasting experience.

Must visit place! Gorgeous view and very good wines! Will be coming back for sure

Outstanding customer service by owner and wine went beyond expectations.

Beautiful setting with amazing views in all directions. Has a small tasting room (for bad weather) and a pleasant outdoor seating area, sometimes with gentle music, in a grassy amphitheater. The wines are all excellent, some from grapes grown here, some from central coast. Very knowledgeable winemaker and staff. Also boasts ecological approach. The grand deck now is covered for tastings rain or shine. "My favorite local winery."

service was great, winery was beautiful👌🏽

All of the above , mountain top is out of this world , open 12-5 sat and sun lots of history 43 yrs in production 🍷🍷🍷

We spent mother's day at Silver Mountain Winery and we're completely spoiled. Wine tasting and a lovely charcuterie basket made for a perfect mountain picnic.