Mike & Molly Hendry Napa Valley Albarino Dessert Wine NV (375ml) NO20231101 cold-extracted over the course of

cold-extracted over the course of a month to preserve delicate aromatics

and a distinct mineral signature that will only sharpen as the young vines mature

the wine is in a gorgeous place — deep garnet

A pet-nat from Bordeaux

then aged 14 months in used American and French barrels - used being the key word

Mike & Molly Hendry Napa Valley Albarino Dessert Wine NV (375ml) NO20231101 cold-extracted over the course ofNobody 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