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Our Wines

Rod and Jan’s Winemaking Notes, Ratings and Recognition

Keeling-Schaefer wines come from fruit grown on our own estate vineyards. We farm 21 acres of ENTAV, Davis FPS and Tablas Creek French clones on our Home Place Vineyard and our Rock Creek Vineyard. One thing that sets us apart from many wineries is we grow our own fruit and make all of the wine in the winery located on the vineyard. It is a terrific advantage to control all aspects of winemaking, including all of the growing decisions.

In 2004, Herrick Grapevines, of St. Helena, California, supplied us with 7200 ENTAV dormant benchgrafts for our April 2004 planting. These plants are Syrah clones; 174, 383 and 877; and Grenache Noir clones, 513 and 362. In 2007-2009, along with our friends and former partners, Roger and Judy Egan, we planted an additional 10,500 vines, on 12 acres, of Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre, Viognier and Picpoul Blanc on our Rock Creek Vineyard. On the Rock Creek Vineyard, we also planted a UC Davis Syrah #2 clone, an Estrella River Shiraz clone from Australia and a Rockpile Petite Sirah clone from Sonoma County.

Our wines are now available at the Willcox Tasting Room, through our wine club shipments and several of our wines are sold by leading wine retailers, like Total Wine, Albertsons and Safeway, and restaurants in Arizona.

Lively & Light-Bodied

2021 Best Friends Viognier $18.00
190 cases produced. This vintage has a distinctive aroma of stone fruit (peaches and apricots) and honeysuckle with a crisp, delicious mouthfeel
2020 Best Friends Reserve Viognier $32.00
55 cases produced. Late harvest, fermented in new American oak, aged “sur lie” – very smooth & full-bodied
2021 Puzzle Vine Picpoul Blanc $16.00
131 cases produced. This is a lovely, light  white wine with bright acidity and subtle fruit flavors for lighter meals or as an afternoon “sipping” wine”
2020 Rock Creek Rose’ $16.00
115 cases produced. Reminiscent of Provencal Rose’ – Very pale, blush-like, crisp & refreshing, with slight cherry and watermelon flavors and a soft finish
2020 Pear Wine  $14.00  SOLD OUT
44 cases produced. Pears from our vineyard orchard with a bit of Picpoul added for a light, low alcohol wine w/a subtle pear flavor and a soft finish
2021 Apple Wine  $16.00 Hurry, Almost Sold Out!
46 cases produced. Fuji Apples from our front yard at the vineyard. Low alcohol, aromatic and delicious
2020 Two Reds Grenache $20.00 NEW RELEASE
108 cases produced. Beautiful ruby color, light bodied with red fruit flavors with a hint of white pepper. Very soft on the palate. Sometimes called the “Pinot Noir” of the desert
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Medium-Bodied & Spirited

2020 Farmers Mourvedre $20.00 NEW RELEASE
168 cases produced. Very similar to mthe 2019 vintage, this Mourvedre is delicious red wine that will make your nose dance with the aroma of dark fruit, black pepper and thyme
2018 Partners Rhone Blend $20.00
215 cases produced. Classic New World GSM-a savory red wine with dark berry and plum fruit. Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre harvested from our own vineyards.

Bold and Full-Bodied

2017 Three Sisters Syrah $22.00
225 cases produced. 2017 was a great year in the vineyard, and this Three Sisters Syrah enjoys most of the same characteristics of our 2015 Three Sisters Syrah – with black current & dark berry fruit characteristics aged in neutral oak barrels.
2019 Schaefer Boys Mourvedre $38.00
84 cases produced. A full-bodied wine with herbaceous aromas of black pepper, sage and thyme. A hint of tannin at the finish
2016 Keeling Brothers Shiraz $38.00 Hurry, Almost Sold Out!
185 cases produced. Aged in new American and neutral oak, this vintage is rich, rounded, and exceptionally smooth with a ruby-purple hue, a vanilla, jammy aroma and a hint of white pepper to make it interesting
2017 Home Place Reserve Syrah $38.00
180 cases produced. Aged in French oak, this is the 11th vintage of a great wine! Heady aroma of French spice cake and flavors of blackberry, fig, raisins and mocha with a delicious finish…nicknamed “Christmas in a bottle”
2019 Little Block Petite Sirah $38.00
114 cases produced. Continuing the tradition, back, inky, rich with a great mouthfeel, this Petite Sirah is exotic, spicy– “velvet glory in a bottle”
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The Sweet Life

Producing Arizona fine premium dry wine since 2005, Keeling Schaefer has developed an all natural process to take the high quality fruit grown on our own vineyards and transform that fruit into a delicious, fun, and easy drinking line of Coatimundi Cellars sweet wines. Sweet Lady Pink, Sweet Lady White and Sweet Lady Red!
Keeling Schaefer Vineyards has also begun growing grapes and making wine for Kokopelli Winery, one of Arizona’s earliest and most successful brands. Kokopelli Sweet Lucy Red and Pink, along with Moscato, are now available by Keeling Schaefer! We are now offering both brands in our Tasting Room!

Wines

Coatimundi Cellars Sweet Lady Pink $16.00

Fresh, crisp with strawberry notes and a hint of cotton candy

Coatimundi Cellars Sweet Lady White $16.00

Clean, crisp, delicious with notes of pear and apricot

Coatimundi Cellars Sweet Lady Red $16.00

Spicy, fun, light-bodied with notes of red summer fruit – raspberry, strawberry and cherry

Kokopelli Sweet Lucy Pink $16.00

Richly sweet, perfumed with notes of spiced peach and watermelon

Kokopelli Sweet Lucy Red $16.00

Wonderfully sweet with flavors of intense dark berries & light tannin

Kokopelli Sweet Lucy Moscato $16.00 

Classical sweet Muscato with flavors of intense melon

 

Ratings and Recognition

Best Friends Viognier
2007-89 Points Wine Spectator
2018-92 Points Tastings.com
2019-86 Points Tastings.com

Three Sisters Syrah
2006-Presidential Taste-Off Winner, Wall Street Journal
2007-89 Points Wine Spectator
2009-89 Points Wine Spectator
2014-88 Points Tastings.com

Partners Rhone Blend
2007-88 Points Wine Spectator
2008-84 Points Wine Spectator
2010-84 Points Wine Spectator
2014-90 Points Tastings.com

Two Reds Grenache
2007-86 Points Wine Spectator
2016-84 Points Tastings.com

Farmers Mourvedre
2015-85 Points Tastings.com

Home Place Reserve Syrah
2006-86 Points Wine Spectator
2007-87 Points Wine Spectator

Keeling Brothers Shiraz
2007-87 Points Wine Spectator
2009-88 Points Wine Spectator
2010-86 Points Wine Spectator

In addition to all these ratings we have received over the years, Our wine has been recognized in countless articles and award programs we have not listed here. Jan and I also take satisfaction in the fact that some of these wines have been enjoyed and  become permanent fixtures in the cellars of our over 1000 wine club members and many other friends and customers across the country.  RK

  • Every vintage of Three Sisters Syrah, 2006-through the current release-2015, has been served by Cafe Roka in Bisbee.
  • Three Sisters Syrah has been in Costco in Tucson continually since the 2007 vintage.
  • Three Sisters Syrah is the top selling Arizona varietal wine in Total Wine and More in Arizona.
  • While never rated and sold only to our wine club and in our Willcox Tasting Room, every vintage of our Little Block Petite Sirah has been sold out within weeks of it’s release.
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