Keenan Winery Napa Valley Merlot, California, USA

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Mostly from the estate's Spring Mountain property, with a bit of Carneros fruit as well, Keenan's 2019 Merlot features attractive scents of black cherries, mocha and toasted oak. This 100% Merlot is medium to full-bodied, smooth, silky, nicely rounded and ripe, with decent length. It's a solid all-around effort that sells for a reasonable price.

The 2017 Merlot (100%) is medium to deep garnet-purple in color and reveals baked plums, black forest cake and mincemeat pie scents with touches of garrigue, dried herbs and cedar. Medium-bodied, the palate has uncomplicated black fruit and plenty of freshness with a chewy texture and firm, grippy finish.

The 2016 Merlot has a medium to deep garnet-purple color and nose of vague plums, spices, earth and herbs. Medium-bodied, it's soft and innocuous in the mouth with an herbal finish.

Medium garnet-purple in color and composed of 100% Merlot, the 2015 Merlot offers a plums, blackberries and dried flowers-scented nose with touches of mossy bark and garrigue. Showing good expression in the medium-bodied mouth with plenty of plumy fruit, it finishes long and spicy.

The 2014 Merlot from Napa is a delicious, solidly constructed 100% Merlot that sells for a reasonable price. Chinese black tea, black cherry, mocha and some underbrush are all found in this medium-bodied, deliciously fruity, complex Merlot to drink over the next decade.