Keenan Winery Napa Valley Merlot 2021 (375ml) CHECK UPC Subtle notes of just ripe

Subtle notes of just ripe forest berries

The result reads less like a varietal exercise and more like a slow

This bottling comes off a south-facing slope near the Tanaro river

Aromas of white flowers

gently grippy - somewhere between Poulsard and good cru Beaujolais

Keenan Winery Napa Valley Merlot 2021 (375ml) CHECK UPC Subtle notes of just ripeRobert 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