Hendry Unoaked Napa Valley Chardonnay 2024 26REASONABLE and it does its best

and it does its best work with a slight chill and a table full of food

Polished to 35%

and several months on fine lees give the wine a subtle creaminess to frame all that maritime cut

this Bottled in Bond expression ages a minimum of seven years in Level 3 charred new American oak

Hendry Unoaked Napa Valley Chardonnay 2024 26REASONABLE and it does its bestThe 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