About Palmaz Vineyards
Dr. Julio Palmaz's Mount George estate — the inventor of the coronary stent applied medical engineering precision to winemaking by excavating a 18-sto
Palmaz Vineyards is the most technologically extraordinary wine estate in the Napa Valley — a feat of medical engineering precision applied to viticulture that could only have been conceived by someone who invented the coronary stent.
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Palmaz Vineyards isPalmaz Vineyards is the most technologically extraordinary wine estate in the Napa Valley — a feat of medical engineering precision applied to viticulture that could only have been conceived by someone who invented the coronary stent.
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Julio Palmaz, whoseJulio Palmaz, whose 1985 invention of the intravascular stent revolutionized cardiovascular medicine and earned him the National Inventors Hall of Fame, purchased the 1,100-acre Hagen Road estate in 1999 and proceeded to excavate an 18-story underground fermentation facility inside the mountain itself.
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The underground facilityThe underground facility — a series of caves and chambers carved deep into the volcanic mountain, including a four-story fermentation dome where temperature is regulated by the mountain's natural thermal mass — represents the most ambitious and scientifically rigorous gravity-flow winery construction in California wine history.
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Featured Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon
Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley / Mount George Estate
Palmaz's technologically precise volcanic mountain flagship — estate Cabernet from 1,100 acres of Mount George terrain, fermented in the 18-story underground dome with computerized medical precision, consistently earning 92–96 points from Wine Spectator for the volcanic mineral concentration that Dr. Julio Palmaz's coronary stent engineering conviction produces in Napa Valley Cabernet.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Estate Chardonnay
Napa Valley / Mount George Estate
Palmaz's volcanic mountain white expression — estate Chardonnay from the 1,100-acre Mount George terrain fermented in the underground four-story natural temperature-regulated dome, showing what medical engineering precision and volcanic Napa Valley mountain terrain produce in California's most popular white variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Riesling
Estate Riesling
Napa Valley / Mount George Estate
Palmaz's most unexpected and distinctive expression — estate Napa Valley Riesling from the Mount George volcanic terrain, one of the very few seriously produced estate Riesling programs in Napa Valley, showing what Dr. Palmaz's commitment to varietal diversity and underground dome fermentation precision produces in this German variety from California volcanic mountain terrain.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Amalia Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley / Mount George Estate
Palmaz's most personally named expression — Amalia Cabernet honoring Dr. Palmaz's wife, the most comprehensively assembled and prestige-tier statement of what the 18-story underground volcanic mountain estate and medical engineering winemaking precision produces at its most ambitious and collectible quality level.
Estate
★★★★☆
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Book on Tock →Underground Engineering Appointment
Appointment at the most technologically extraordinary wine estate in the Napa Valley — tour of the 18-story underground fermentation dome carved into Mount George, estate Cabernet and Riesling at 92–97 points from the coronary stent inventor's volcanic mountain winery. The most scientifically ambitious wine estate tour in California.
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