FALL-WINTER 2020-21, from The President’s Desk
The Keenan team at the thankfully still standing winery wishes you a happy holiday season.
Spring / Summer 2020, from The President’s Desk
2005 Side by Side: A second day wine is a simple enough concept. In an industry that’s saturated with impenetrable and often times inexplicable terminology, this one is fairly straightforward. A wine that is better the next day. A wine possessing enough focus, structure, and complexity such that the following evening you have a wine that has continued to delicately evolve, giving you a brief but exciting glimpse of its full potential. This very cool and interesting concept is more traditionally known as ‘opening your wine too early’. Sure, it’s all fine and good to open wines when they're peaking. It’s defiantly chill to do your research, read the…
Michael Talking on Old World versus New World Wines
During the Keenan Medieval River (Tour happening now on the Rhine, Main & Danube) Michael Keenan gave a great talk and blind tasting comparing wines. It was educational and a great time as we talked about the distinctive characteristics and unique nuances of several outstanding wines.
Better than a Dream
I'm frequently asked, “How was harvest?” This year my answer was, “Like a dream”. Everything about this harvest, and quite frankly, the entire growing season was ideal. Bud break occurred at a normal time, weeks later ‘set’ was problem free and the growing season got off to a terrific start. In August veraison began and was beautifully even and delightfully drawn out and the Zinfandel crop, which can be notoriously uneven, was as even as we have ever seen it. It was such a pleasure to walk the vineyards in the weeks preceding harvest and bask in the glory of all of these perfectly shaped broad shouldered even ripening…
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