2017 Hoopes Genny’s Vineyard Carneros Napa Valley 750 ml

Hoopes is a Wine Access Hall of Fame producer. Our members have fallen in love with the unparalleled value that Lindsay Hoopes’ Napa wines deliver—from a region where value can be hard to come by.

Hoopes’ Genny’s Vineyard Chardonnay is very hard to come by—the single-vineyard bottling is usually sold only at the winery’s tasting room. But after yet another Hoopes Cab sell-out, we approached Lindsay with one thing on our mind: securing an allocation of this rich, powerful white wine, which hails from what Wine Spectator deemed the best Chardonnay vintage in a decade.

Genny’s is a gem of a vineyard in Carneros, the cool, windswept corner of Napa that produces some of the most dramatic Chardonnay in the area. This 2017 is a testament not only to a great vintage, but to the power of aging Chardonnay to tease out golden fruit, hints of hazelnut, and a mouthfeel that’s pure silk.

This bottle shares the power that marks the best bottles from Carneros—$200+ wines like Hyde de Villaine Commandante and Aubert’s Hudson Vineyard bottling—which harness the dialectic between cool wind and a long growing season to rich, opulent, and zesty effect. 

2017 was an exceptional year for Chardonnay in Napa and Sonoma—at the time, Wine Spectator ranked it as the best vintage in a decade. The glory of this bottle has emerged with time in the cellar, proving the adage about aging great Chard for at least five years. This wine absolutely blew us away when we tasted it in Lindsay’s cellar—and we bet anyone lucky to get their hands on a bottle will feel the same way.