Winemaker Notes
A Great Food Wine! Pair with Roast Pork & Grilled Veal Chops … Duck Breast to a delicious Bone-In Rib Eye!
Blend: 72% Merlot , 20% Cabernet Franc 8% Cabernet Sauvignon
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 is another wine of great intensity but coiled, very tight, with high levels of tannin. Sensational in extraction and rchness, this blend of 72% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon is the product of a cool year in Napa. It shows fabulous density, richness, and intensity. Perhaps it will evolve somewhat like the brilliant 2005 has, but it is still excruciatingly young, intense, promising, but needs to be forgotten for at least another 4-5 years and drunk over the following two decades.
Rating: 96+ -
Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
When I first approached the 2010 Palazzo Right Bank Red Wine, I thought it was a bit ostentatious of a California proprietor to make this kind of wine in the Napa Valley. Many have tried, and while some have succeeded, many have not. But Scott Palazzo is the real thing and this wine has backed up his dream to make a wine worthy of Bordeaux's Right Bank. This wine is massive, yet quite well-balanced, and its red and black fruits with notes of earth and tree bark make it a fine match with a crown roast of lamb. Drinking pretty well now. (Tasted: August 10, 2016, San Francisco, CA)
Undoubtedly proving its merit over and over, Napa Valley is a now a leading force in the world of prestigious red wine regions. Though Cabernet Sauvignon dominates Napa Valley, other red varieties certainly thrive here. Important but often overlooked include Merlot and other Bordeaux varieties well-regarded on their own as well as for their blending capacities. Very old vine Zinfandel represents an important historical stronghold for the region and Pinot noir is produced in the cooler southern parts, close to the San Pablo Bay.
Perfectly situated running north to south, the valley acts as a corridor, pulling cool, moist air up from the San Pablo Bay in the evenings during the hot days of the growing season, which leads to even and slow grape ripening. Furthermore the valley claims over 100 soil variations including layers of volcanic, gravel, sand and silt—a combination excellent for world-class red wine production.