Also, have to agree on the Opus and Silver Oak. Years ago, while visiting Napa, I dubbed Opus "Japanese Tourist Wine". This was when the Yen was pretty strong, and Asia had just fallen in love with all (what they perceived to be) high-end wines. As you cruised down Hwy. 29, there were all sorts of stores with homemade signs out front advertising "We have Opus One" in both English and Japanese!

As for Silver Oak, I call it "Robo Wine"..year after year same taste...lots of malolactic fermentation to give it that highly-oaked, non-offensive, (and to me) non-interesting taste...it's the same year after year, after year.....