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Orin Swift Palermo Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
Brand new release from Orin Swift! Palermo is a fantastic buy in Napa Cabernet under $40. A stunning, true-to-form Phinney wine: rich, dense, concentrated, fruit-forward and velvety. Each year, they purchase more Cabernet grapes than they need for Mercury Head and Papillon so they can have a virtual palette of vineyards and corresponding "spice rack" elements, if you will, to choose from to make the perfect blends. When their selection runneth-over and some of the sums of the parts behave more positively on their own, they deserve to be bottled separately and that is how a new wine was born, Palermo. 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc blend selected from Howell Mountain, Oakville, Rutherford, St. Helena and Spring Mountain vineyards.
Ratings on Delectable
Severn Goodwin 
WGBY Public Television, Wine Lovers Dinner; 16 March 2019 at Tower Square Hotel (Marriott); Springfield, MA
WGBY Public Television, Wine Lovers Dinner; 16 March 2019 at Tower Square Hotel (Marriott); Springfield, MA
9.0
Sipping Fine Wine
Found a ‘15 on a restaurant list. A blend of Cab Sauv (mostly), Merlot & Cab Franc, aged for 10 months in French oak, 35% new. Very dark red with big ripe fruit aromas with spice & oak notes. Flavors of blackberry, raspberry and currants mingle nicely with cacao and spice. Big full tannins that open up nicely. Lingering finish ending with some mineral notes. Should age well for next decade.
Found a ‘15 on a restaurant list. A blend of Cab Sauv (mostly), Merlot & Cab Franc, aged for 10 months in French oak, 35% new. Very dark red with big ripe fruit aromas with spice & oak notes. Flavors of blackberry, raspberry and currants mingle nicely with cacao and spice. Big full tannins that open up nicely. Lingering finish ending with some mineral notes. Should age well for next decade.
9.1
Michal Sulkowski
Deeper flavors and more refined texture than 2014.
Deeper flavors and more refined texture than 2014.
9.1Richard Davies
Nice support wine. Not super powerfully but a little higher in the alc level
Nice support wine. Not super powerfully but a little higher in the alc level
8.8Henry Fuseler
2/6. Nice cad. Flavor color and opened up nicely.
2/6. Nice cad. Flavor color and opened up nicely.
8.8Allyson O'Keefe
Smashed raspberries & cocoa powder on the nose. Lush, full, grippy, & tannic. Fair amount of fruit & juice throughout, with raspberry & currant skins on the finish. Subtle milk chocolate & undertones of smoke. I’d imagine as this opens it’d get bigger and smokier. Beautiful Cab.
Smashed raspberries & cocoa powder on the nose. Lush, full, grippy, & tannic. Fair amount of fruit & juice throughout, with raspberry & currant skins on the finish. Subtle milk chocolate & undertones of smoke. I’d imagine as this opens it’d get bigger and smokier. Beautiful Cab.
9.0
Stuart Scheff
Black Black BlackBerry
Black Black BlackBerry
9.0Mark Aronica
Another big red, this and Prisoner are my current favorites.
Another big red, this and Prisoner are my current favorites.
9.0
Kay Davis
Bit fan of this. Bold but not over the top.
Bit fan of this. Bold but not over the top.
8.9
Bill Belanger
Deep, dark cab, with a bit of blending. NEEDS to open, then works wonderfully with meat courses.
Deep, dark cab, with a bit of blending. NEEDS to open, then works wonderfully with meat courses.
9.0
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