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| Drinking window: Drink between 2004 and 2015 (based on 92 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.5 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 2 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by stbasil on 6/5/2009 & rated 90 points: From Magnum: Decanted for sediment and left untouched for about an hour. Nose of leather and some herb, cassis and sour cherry. Palate definately shows some age. Good medium mouthfeel, cherry profile bordering on the sour side but not unpleasant. This appears to be mature and ready to go. (2240 views) | | | Tasted by SWatson on 4/16/2008 & rated 91 points: My wife and I bought this bottle 6 years ago, on our first trip to the Napa Valley together. 4 years later we got engaged at Keenan. So what better time and place to open it than a Wednesday night at Wilson in Culver City? Some oak, some sour cherries (almost like a young Sta Rita Hills Pinot), mild leather and earth, a bit of tannin on the finish. (2448 views) |
| By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, Vintage Retrospective: The 1999 Napa Valley Cabernets (May 2019) (5/1/2019)
(Keenan Winery Mermet Reserve (napa Valley) Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Robert Keenan Winery Producer websiteRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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