Sustainability at Keenan Winery
What does sustainability look like at Keenan Winery? Solar power since 2007 and sustainable farming across the estate vineyards. Fewer than a quarter of the estate’s 236 acres are planted; the rest is left wild by choice.
This ratio supports a healthy wild environment, whereas the Valley leans more to monoculture and is less sustainable long term.
— Michael Keenan, President & Owner
At Keenan Winery we advocate for sustainable farming practices. In 2007 our solar power system went on line, and it now supplies energy to the winery, the administrative offices and the visitor hospitality areas, as well as to the homes on the property.
Farming that respects the land shows up in the fruit, and then in the wine. Treating the vineyard so that we put more back into it than we take out is the whole discipline — and the vines keep telling us new things as they mature.