Keenan Winery Napa Valley Merlot 2021 (375ml) Author DK It's a tiny half-hectare plot

It's a tiny half-hectare plot perched high above the Chateau de Varennes

finally treated like it matters

Ya Moon is Reeve's chillable Pinot

and tense fruit make this Zinfandel an extremely crushable rendition of the grape

Keenan Winery Napa Valley Merlot 2021 (375ml) Author DK It's a tiny half-hectare plotRobert Keenan bet in 1974 that mountainside vineyards could make world class Napa wine, planting at 1,700 feet on Spring Mountain. Decades later, the family is still proving the point with this Merlot, drawn largely from those estate slopes and rounded out with select valley floor fruit. Mountain grown Merlot tends to have more spine and savory grip than the plush valley stuff, and Keenan's leans into that structure without losing its richness. This