Keever Vineyards

Bill enjoyed a long and successful career in the telecommunications industry before retiring at the age of 57 to become a grape grower and vintner. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Asia Region, a wireless telecommunications company, when he retired at the end of June 2003. Olga, who also worked in telecommunications, retired in 1998, while they were still living abroad. With Olga’s retirement at hand and Bill’s not far off, they ...

We feel our vineyards are very special. That doesn’t make us unique in the grape growing business because we all love our dirt! We are enchanted by our vineyards because they really are nestled into the hillsides and are growing in loamy, well-drained soil that’s more rock than anything else. One of the vineyard managers suggested that we were engaging in hydroponics farming – rocks, water and roots but no soil!

We were severely restri...