Mike & Molly Hendry Napa Valley Albarino Dessert Wine NV (375ml) CS20230906 and the wines that survived

and the wines that survived lean toward freshness and red-fruited transparency rather than muscle - which suits this site well

it's powerful yet precise

Jean Boxler's Sommerberg "Eckberg" parcel delivers the racy

The 2023 is concentrated yet bone-dry

Mike & Molly Hendry Napa Valley Albarino Dessert Wine NV (375ml) CS20230906 and the wines that survivedNobody asked Napa for a fortified Albarino. Mike and Molly Hendry made one anyway, and it's one of the more genuinely original bottles in the valley. They blended four vintages of Albarino grown on the Hendry Ranch in southwest Napa ground the family has farmed since 1939 and fortified it with brandy they distilled themselves from Zinfandel out of the old R. W. Moore vineyard. Which means the entire bottle, wine and spirit both, traces back to vines