2016 Signorello Cabernet Sauvignon Padrone
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I was also able to taste the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Padrone, which comes from one of the all-time great vintages for the Valley. This deep purple-hued beauty boasts a gorgeous perfume of red, blue, and black fruits as well as complex notes of herbes de Provence, leather, iron, and bouquet garni. I love its purity, it’s full-bodied, has a great mid-palate, and ripe, polished tannins. Drink this impeccably made Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon over the coming two decades.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Padrone is silky, polished and nuanced. Super-ripe red cherry, raspberry jam, white chocolate and new French oak give the Padrone much of its raciness and overall sensuality. This is an especially dense, unctuous style, and yet all the elements are deftly balanced.
Made up of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Merlot (bottled in June 2018), the deep garnet-purple colored 2016 Padrone opens with youthful, very primary notes of red and black currants, crushed plums and black raspberries with touches of cinnamon stick, Marmite toast, pencil shavings, lavender and black soil. Medium-bodied with great vibrancy and freshness plus a fine-grained frame of tannins supporting the red and black fruits, it finishes with a lovely herbal lift. 1,115 cases made.
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Padrone comes across as more finessed and nuanced than the Estate. Medium in body and nicely poised, with plenty of structural underpinning, the 2016 has a lot to recommend it. This tightly wound yet polished Cabernet appears to have a very bright future.