About Palmaz Vineyards
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Palmaz Vineyards is built around a roughly 100,000-square-foot gravity-flow wine cave carved into Mount George, reportedly Napa Valley's largest.
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19th-century rootsThe site was originally Cedar Knoll Vineyard, founded by Henry Hagen in 1881, before falling dormant after Prohibition.
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Restored by the Palmaz familyJulio and Amalia Palmaz acquired and revived the estate starting in 1997, rebuilding it into a modern gravity-flow winery.
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Engineering-driven caveThe winery's underground cave complex uses gravity rather than pumps to move wine, with a fermentation dome roughly 72 feet wide and 54 feet tall.
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Featured Wines
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Palmaz Cabernet Sauvignon
Current release · Napa Valley
The estate's flagship Cabernet Sauvignon grown on the Mount George property.
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Gaston Cabernet Sauvignon
Current release · Napa Valley
A distinct Cabernet Sauvignon bottling named for the Palmaz family.
CHARDONNAY
Amalia Chardonnay
Current release · Napa Valley
An estate Chardonnay named for Amalia Palmaz.
Palmaz does not publish per-bottle pricing broadly online; wines are largely allocated through the estate's direct list and Brasas club.
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Private Tour & Portfolio Tasting
A roughly 2-hour cave walk-through paired with a seated tasting of six wines and hors d'oeuvres, by appointment.
$150 per person
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Private Tour & Cabernet Collector Tasting
The same cave tour format focused on a five-wine flight of the estate's Cabernet-based wines.
$195 per person
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