Hendry Napa Valley Zinfandel Blocks 7 & 22 2022 extra-brut-selection capturing mineral tension alongside fruit

capturing mineral tension alongside fruit generosity

regeneratively-minded Paso Robles Zinfandel — a wine that walks the talk on farming without ever feeling like a lecture

Brilliant ruby color

and makrut lime

and it finds an unlikely home in the warm volcanic soils of the Rattlesnake Hills AVA in the Yakima Valley

Hendry Napa Valley Zinfandel Blocks 7 & 22 2022 extra-brut-selection capturing mineral tension alongside fruitBlock 7 was planted in 1975, and it has been the backbone of Hendry Zinfandel since the family's very first vintage in 1992. Before that, the fruit went to other wineries and helped build George Hendry's reputation as one of Napa's great growers. Here it is blended with Block 22, a younger planting on the same bench land west of the town of Napa, and the result is Zinfandel that behaves less like a jammy crowd pleaser and more like a structured Napa