Hendry Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon HRW 2023 070226CHILL as though biting straight into

as though biting straight into a perfectly ripe blood orange

Avize for the force of character and Mesnil-sur-Oger for the structure and longevity

He spent years as a flying winemaker in France

The 2021 is a classic warm-but-balanced Napa vintage

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Hendry Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon HRW 2023 070226CHILL as though biting straight intoFor 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