Hendry Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon HRW 2023 061126OFFER native-fermented and aged eleven months

native-fermented and aged eleven months on the lees with no fining or filtering and only a whisper of SO2 at bottling

At first pour it's deep and dark

Ashes & Diamonds is a love letter to Napa as it was in the 1960s and '70s

100% Pinot Noir with no dosage added from a small but very high quality producer in Alsace

this is pear-forward (approximately 70% pear

Hendry Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon HRW 2023 061126OFFER native-fermented and aged eleven monthsFor fifty years the Hendry family were growers, not vintners, quietly farming 203 acres in the Mayacamas foothills west of Napa and selling their fruit to wineries whose names you know a lot better than theirs. They finally started bottling their own in 1992. HRW is their more affordable Napa Valley line, and it is a rare thing now: an estate grown Napa Cabernet from a family that owns the dirt, priced for people who actually drink Cabernet rather