Newsletters from the President of Keenan Winery

SPRING-SUMMER 2018 NEWSLETTER The ‘Pioneers’ of the Napa Valley are generally accepted to be the mostly Italian immigrants who came to the valley in latter part of the 19th century. One of these families, the Conradis, settled on our property around 1890. They planted mostly Zinfandel with a smattering of Alicante and Carignane and built the winery that we still use today. I can hardly imagine what it must have been like to head down to town on a horse drawn wagon, on a dirt road, in the rain, with no cell phone to text on or to call for help when the wagon went off the road! First…