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Template:Infobox writer Kerin O'Keefe is an American wine critic and author. In April 2013 she was named Italian Editor for Wine Enthusiast.[1] From 2002 to 2013 she wrote regularly on Italian wine for Decanter. Her numerous articles have also appeared in The World of Fine Wine and more recently in Wine-Searcher. She was also Contributing Editor for The Wine News magazine from 2003 to 2009.

Her first book was published in Italian by Luigi Veronelli in 2004: Franco Biondi Santi. Il gentleman del Brunello. She authored the English edition of the book in 2005, Franco Biondi Santi. The Gentleman of Brunello, a recipient of a Gourmand Wine Books Award. She also won the Premio Consorzio Brunello di Montalcino in 2008 for her cover article Brunello de-con-structed which appeared in the Oct-Nov 2007 issue of US magazine The Wine News. Her latest book, Brunello di Montalcino - Understanding and Appreciating One of Italy's Greatest Wines (University of California Press, 2012), was shortlisted for the André Simon Award.[2]

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Kerin O’Keefe holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and also studied English and American literature for a year at the University of East Anglia.[3] O'Keefe moved to Italy in 1991, got married in 1992 to an Italian and became fascinated by the country's unique wines. To further her wine knowledge she studied with the Associazione italiana sommelier and earned her Sommelier's Certificate in 1996. Fluent in Italian, she soon immersed herself in the pursuit of discovering Italy's greatest wines by frequently traveling around the country to meet the winemakers and walk their vineyards. O'Keefe has a keen interest in fine Italian wine made from autochthonous grape varieties.[3]

She has been described as "an author who not only knows her subject in great detail, but one who is opinionated and tells her story in an engaging fashion",[4] "the best English-language writer and critic on Brunello",[5] "a critical voice who writes about Brunello with the affection and focus ordinarily reserved for the likes of Burgundy",[6] "undoubtedly the English-speaking world's most passionate advocate of the wines of Montalcino".[7]

Brunello di Montalcino (2012) was called "one of the rare wine books that is truly important",[8] "authorative",[9] "fascinating, well-written",[10] "a delight",[5] "forthright, trenchant, spirited, anything but bland",[11] "excellent",[12] "exhaustively researched",[13] "a little masterpiece",[14] "highly recommended",[4] " very fine and wonderfully opinionated",[15] "a valuable source",[6] "a milestone in our grasp of Brunello",[16] "the reference work on Montalcino",[3] "a page-turner if ever a wine book was one",[7] "like an information colliery: the more you flip through the pages, the deeper you get inside the world of Brunello and the land of Montalcino",[17] "compelling and page-turning prose".[18]

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She has been put by Tim Crane in the Clive Coates/Michael Broadbent camp of wine critics, rather than in the Robert M. Parker camp of "loud and fruity descriptions".[9]

Her article Rebels without a cause? The demise of Super-Tuscans[19] has been called "fascinating" by Eric Asimov and spurred a lively debate on the merits of Super-Tuscans.[20]

The Brunellopoli scandal was not a surprise for O'Keefe,[3][21] as she had been questioning Brunellos which were suspiciously dark and without the typical aromas of pure Sangiovese wines for years. O'Keefe wrote in 2003 that many of 1997 Brunellos she had tasted: "were so jammy it was hard to believe they were Brunello",[22] in 2006 that: "illicit blending with other grapes, to make luminous ruby-garnet color unnaturally darker, is staunchly denied on all official fronts"[19] and in 2007 that: "Doubts can only remain in the face of some of the darker, impenetrable Brunellos sometimes seen".[23]

O'Keefe explains in an interview with Ambrosia, "I tasted Brunello wines first time in 1989 during a trip to Tuscany. During that trip, I not only fell in love with my future husband, but also with the wine Brunello di Montalcino. Then in 2004 while researching for the book on Franco Biondi Santi, I realized the greatness of the wines and understood the need to write a book on the wines from a different perspective."[17]

The search for pure expressions of Sangiovese led her to write the Brunello book, as she explained in an interview to JancisRobinson.com: "I did not write a classic wine guide, and never aimed to include every top-scoring estate. Instead, I wanted to write about subzones and I purposely chose the best terroir-driven wines that reflect these zones while omitting Brunellos that merely reflect heavy-handed cellar practices but not their origins, even if the latter have become the darlings of many other critics".[3]

O'Keefe wrote against "the concept behind the American Palate – that a single style can capture the taste buds of an entire nation"[24] and the "crass stereotype of the American palate".[25] She argued instead that "no one can deny the growing interest in the USA, and around the world, in more drinkable and terroir-driven wines".[25]

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  1. ^ Kerin O'Keefe Named New Italian Editor for Wine Enthusiast Magazine, 22 April 2013.
  2. ^ Jancis Robinson, André Simon shortlist announced, 14 December 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e Walter Speller, Kerin O'Keefe's Montalcino subzones, 26 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b Tom Hyland, The Real Story of Brunello di Montalcino, 28 April 2012.
  5. ^ a b Donald Winkler, Brunello di Montalcino by Kerin O’Keefe, 18 April 2012.
  6. ^ a b Keith Levenberg, Brunello's true believer, in The World of Fine Wine, Issue 37 2012, p. 38-39.
  7. ^ a b Nicolas Belfrage, from back cover, in Brunello di Montalcino, University of California Press, 2012.
  8. ^ Evan Dawson, An Honest Look at Brunello, 28 March 2012.
  9. ^ a b Tim Crane, The Grace Kelly of wine, 1º August 2012.
  10. ^ Paul O'Doherty, 2012 wine books - Italy, 26 December 2012.
  11. ^ Michael Edwards, And so it should be:, 15 December 2012.
  12. ^ Tim Atkin, Regions could teach each other, in Off Licence News, 22 March 2013.
  13. ^ C.P. Vesei, O'Keefe, Kerin. Brunello di Montalcino, February 2013.
  14. ^ Franco Ziliani, a book that every Brunello lover MUST read, 19 December 2012.
  15. ^ Greg Sorensen, Brunello, Now More Than Ever., 23 December 2012.
  16. ^ Tom Maresca, The Best Brunello Book Yet, 4 June 2012.
  17. ^ a b Rojita Tiwari, Book Review - Brunello di Montalcino, in Ambrosia, September 2013.
  18. ^ Chiara Certomà, Book Review - Brunello di Montalcino, in Journal of Wine Research, November 2013.
  19. ^ a b Kerin O'Keefe, Rebels without a cause? The demise of Super-Tuscans (PDF), in The World of Fine Wine, Issue 23 2009, p. 94-99. Errore nelle note: Tag <ref> non valido; il nome "KO-wofw" è stato definito più volte con contenuti diversi
  20. ^ Eric Asimov, Are Super-Tuscans Still Super?, in The New York Times, 13 April 2009.
  21. ^ John Wilson, Vintage crimes, in The Irish Times, 23 May 2013.
  22. ^ Kerin, The Wine News O'Keefe, Vintage of a Lifetime, February–March 2003.
  23. ^ Kerin, The Wine News O'Keefe, Brunello De-con-struct-ed, October–November 2007.
  24. ^ Kerin O'Keefe, US love affair with Italy, in Decanter, April 2011.
  25. ^ a b Kerin O'Keefe, Italy and the American Palate: debunking the myth, in The World of Fine Wine, Issue 37 2012, p. 79-83.

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