Keenan Winery Napa Valley Merlot 2021 (375ml) BFCM21ALL Ployez-Jacquemart takes a different path

Ployez-Jacquemart takes a different path

cooler La Corvee de Bully site

The Dureuil family has made the village of Rully their home for centuries — not much has changed since the 13th century

a Cru of the southern Rhone

Keenan Winery Napa Valley Merlot 2021 (375ml) BFCM21ALL Ployez-Jacquemart takes a different pathRobert 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