What does it mean, when one of Napa Valley's most popular wineries buys one of its most exclusive?

It seems like an odd fit: Silver Oak, which makes 100,000 cases of wine annually, buying Ovid, which makes about 2000.

Silver Oak's wines are not cheap: its Napa Cabernet is $125; its Alexander Valley Cab is $75. But Ovid's wines are at another price level: about $300, if you can find them.

Silver Oak is consistently in the Top 10 of Wine & Spirits' Restaurant Poll as one of the most-ordered wines in America. I think it's fair to say that relatively few Americans, even among wine drinkers, have even heard of Ovid, which didn't release its first vintage (a 2005 wine) until 2009.