Newsletters from the President of Keenan Winery

Despite the continuous barrage of recent negative news concerning the latest Variant threat, the world as seen through the lens of our winery is looking increasingly normal. Visitation at the winery seems to be back to normal. We are seeing people from all over the country, not just the Bay Area, which was the case after we initially opened up after the original state-mandated shutdowns. Distributer sales from all over the country are back to the best levels we have ever seen. Most of our distributors have brought back all of their sales teams, and restaurants are bouncing back better than I thought they would. The third leg of…

It’s always a great feeling knowing that something truly exciting is on the horizon. After coming through the cauldron of the last 15 months, it is quite a relief and a pleasure to look in the cellar and see the wines we will show over the next three years. 2018 through 2020 is quite simply one of the greatest three-year runs that we have yet to experience, and that is really saying something.

The Keenan team at the thankfully still standing winery wishes you a happy holiday season.

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…