Hendry Napa Valley Zinfandel Blocks 7 & 22 2022 GROWER sea-air salinity

sea-air salinity

lands somewhere between Sancerre and the Loire's racier outliers: green herbs and citrus over a stony

BODY: Full of body but not too strong

rich with floral and fruit notes including jasmine and apricot

Hendry Napa Valley Zinfandel Blocks 7 & 22 2022 GROWER sea-air salinityBlock 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