2017 Palazzo Left Bank Red Cuvee Master Blend Series Napa Valley 750 ml

Scott Palazzo has one of the coolest origin stories in wine.

When he was young, he went on a three-month guitar-and-backpack trip through Europe, and at the end he found himself in Provence with no money. But he didn’t want to go home, and since he’d heard that you could make a few francs picking grapes in Bordeaux, he headed that way.

He landed in St.-Émilion. “That’s really where my palate got shaped,” he told us. Scott grew up in a family that poured humble but balanced and food-friendly wines at the dinner table, so the reds he encountered on Bordeaux’s Right Bank won him over. Decades later, after a long music-business detour that earned him a Grammy nomination, he headed to Napa to make wine. 

His first vintage was in 2003, when, as he puts it, “the whole cult Cab thing was taking off.” His friends told him he was crazy if he didn’t make a Cabernet Sauvignon, but he resisted, instead following the taste he’d honed over decades. 

Only after a dozen years of earning critical praise did Scott turn to Cabernet Sauvignon, leaning heavily on the south Napa Valley vineyards that supply his perfectly balanced Right Bank wines. “It really is the most Bordeaux-like,” he says of his beloved Carneros. “It gives me just wonderful fruit to work with.” He often picks his Carneros fruit in late October, getting four to five weeks longer hang-time than he would in other parts of Napa.

Released in 2021, now showing beautifully, this is a stunner of a bottle that comes at a fantastic price. We’re thrilled to offer it, and can’t wait for you to taste it.