Press & Recognition

What have critics said about Keenan Winery? Keenan’s 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, Spring Mountain District, is #38 in the Vinous Top 100 Wines of 2025, at 97 points. Keenan has earned 93 scores of 90–97 points from Robert Parker Jr.’s Wine Advocate, beginning with the 2001 vintage, and was named to Wine & Spirits Magazine’s Top 100 Wineries of the World, most recently in 2023 — the final list the magazine published before it ceased publication in April 2024.

From the critics

The critics’ reviews sit with each wine’s tasting note in the Wine Notes.

In the press

• San Francisco Chronicle: “Top Wineries in Napa Valley,” Esther Mobley, updated June 2, 2026: “…Keenan, which continues to produce some of the best (and best-value) Merlots in California.”
• San Francisco Chronicle: “Robert Keenan: superior, world-class wines, spectacular mountain estate”
• The Wall Street Journal: “When Wine Is the Occasion,” Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, on a 1978 Robert Keenan Winery Chardonnay: “The Keenan, which we’d never seen before, was one of the greatest wines we’d ever tasted.”
• The New York Times: “Wine Talk,” September 20, 1989, on a New York blind tasting of three vintages of Keenan Merlot against Château Petrus: “…the solid, beautifully balanced 1986 Keenan, which seems to have a very bright future.”

Why do some Keenan wines carry two scores?

You’ll sometimes see dual scores on Keenan wines (e.g., 94/97). The second number is a 10-year retrospective tasting update — independent proof that mountain fruit evolves beautifully over time.

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