Hanabi Hana Pilsner Style Lager (500ml) CS20230828 1990 was a benchmark vintage

1990 was a benchmark vintage in the valley

This is Lingua Franca’s most elegant expression of Chardonnay

then pressed and aged on the lees in neutral barrels for 18 months

Pour it cold with anything coming off the grill

A compelling middle chapter between youthful Calvados and the ancient 1980

Hanabi Hana Pilsner Style Lager (500ml) CS20230828 1990 was a benchmark vintageHana is the heirloom barley that brewed the world's first pilsner, and it nearly disappeared entirely. British farmers pulled it back from the brink, and Hanabi now sources it from one of the only fields on earth still growing the stuff, in Norfolk, England. That grain is the entire point: Hanabi is a Napa brewery founded out of a winemaking life, and their whole project is what they call grain forward lager beer designed to showcase the flavor of the