2019 Hagen's Reserve Proprietary Red Wine Napa Valley 750 ml

When friends visit Napa Valley, we want them to leave awestruck. That’s why we take them straight to Palmaz.

Perfectly manicured hillside rows of Cabernet and Merlot. A gravity-fed winery of aeronautic precision. And an 110,000 square-foot winery cave, winding down through 18 stories of earth, with NASA-like quantities of data projected on the huge dome above—data that guides the expert winemaking of 100pt winemaker Mia Klein.

Palmaz’s operations would be the envy of NASA. Aerial mapping of cover crops and laser-precise farming protocols ensure the optimal health of every single vine on the 60 planted acres of the Coombsville property, using science to help make a Cabernet that perfectly conveys their rugged hillside terroirs into liquid form. 

Every wine is fine-tuned from budbreak to bottling by Mia Klein (who has earned a string of 100-point ratings over the course of her work with Dalla Valle, Spottswoode, Viader, and Araujo), Tina Mitchell (a student of André Tchelistcheff), and founders Amalia and Julio Palmaz. At the heart of the winery, surrounded by custom fermentation tanks, the team can project real-time fermentation data—including thermal imaging—onto a digital control board to monitor each lot 24/7, and deliver absolute precision into every bottle.

Their Hagen’s Reserve is a blend of 40% Merlot, 38% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Petit Verdot, and 8% Malbec from Palmaz’s breathtaking 1,400ft, 1,200ft, and 300ft STEEP hillside terroirs on Coombsville’s Mount George. The parcels from these three elevations are blind-tasted by the winemaking team each year, and at the end of 12 months in the barrel, they determine the blend of varietals and parcels, then age them for an additional five months in French oak.