Keenan Winery Napa Valley Merlot 2021 (375ml) CHECK UPC fruity gin liqueur should be

fruity gin liqueur should be your summer bar staple

with a hint of eucalyptus and light smoke

Benjamin Laroche — working outside his family's much larger operation — ferments this mostly in stainless steel with a portion in old barrels

gently grippy - somewhere between Poulsard and good cru Beaujolais

This is the everyday bottle in the Fierce & Kind range

Keenan Winery Napa Valley Merlot 2021 (375ml) CHECK UPC fruity gin liqueur should beRobert 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