Hendry Unoaked Napa Valley Chardonnay 2024 Wine Bar | Featured Red revealing layers of struck flint

revealing layers of struck flint

and as crowd-pleasing as ever

which is exactly what Drew Huffine and Emily Virgil are hunting for at Trail Marker

same zero-dosage approach

5 years old

Hendry Unoaked Napa Valley Chardonnay 2024 Wine Bar | Featured Red revealing layers of struck flintThe Hendry family has farmed the same ranch at the foot of Mt. Veeder since 1939, and this is the bottling where they get out of the way. No barrel, no oak, no makeup: the Chardonnay goes into stainless steel and stays there, so what you taste is the fruit and the cool marine air that funnels into the southern end of the valley. The vines are older, low yielding Dijon plantings from the mid 1990s, which is where the concentration comes from. It's a