Hendry Unoaked Napa Valley Chardonnay 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White this is your upgrade

this is your upgrade

The history and terroir of Vandières in the Vallée de la Marne

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Schioppettino was all but extinct after phylloxera until Paolo and Dina Rapuzzi brought it back from a handful of surviving vines in the 1970s -- and helped get its cultivation declared legal again in 1976

it would be hard to argue otherwise

Hendry Unoaked Napa Valley Chardonnay 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White this is your upgradeThe 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