Bally Keal Estate · Sonoma Valley
2024 Bally Keal Estate Sauvignon Blanc, Sonoma Valley, California
A place on your wine list
Adrian Guerrero's 2024 Sonoma Valley Sauvignon Blanc. Grapefruit, lime, and mint. A Gold-medal white you can pour by the glass.
Winery SRP $25 per bottle
Why this bottle belongs on the list
Two selling points.
Then the market.
Adrian Guerrero trained under Jeff Cohn, then came home in 2024.
Adrian grew up in Vacaville picking pears with his grandfather. He studied enology at Fresno State, then worked Rockpile in Dry Creek, Silver Eagle in Russian River, and Gary's Vineyard in the Santa Lucia Highlands under Jeff Cohn. After a turn as assistant brewer at Jackrabbit, he joined Bally Keal as winemaker and brewer in 2024. His brief is purity of fruit and gentle cellar work. This 2024 Sauvignon Blanc is a first-vintage white under that hand.
Sonoma Valley on the label. Suisun Valley at the door.
The estate sits on eighty acres in Suisun Valley, with 62 acres of organically farmed Cabernet. This bottle is not that Cabernet. It is labeled Sonoma Valley Sauvignon Blanc. Citrus and herb, not a grassy New Zealand copy. The house is Irish hospitality. The appellation is the climate. San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Gold on this exact 2024.
Professional scores
What the press wrote on this vintage.
Named competition gold on this exact 2024. This is a professional medal, not a Wine-Searcher aggregate.
The buyer's perspective
What the guest
hears first.
Grapefruit, lime zest, mint, and lemongrass. Dry, lively, a clean herbal finish. Staff can sell it in one sentence: Bally Keal's Sonoma Valley Sauvignon Blanc, Adrian in the cellar, pour it ice-cold with oysters.
Winemaker's corner
Vacaville · Fresno State · Jeff Cohn · Bally Keal 2024
Adrian
Guerrero
Adrian grew up in Vacaville picking pears with his grandfather. Mint, sage, and summer fruit from the family garden are the smells he still names. A college fascination with fermentation sent him to Fresno State for enology.
Jeff Cohn put him on serious sites: Rockpile in Dry Creek, Silver Eagle in Russian River, Gary's Vineyard in the Santa Lucia Highlands. Those years taught him to chase flavor without burying fruit. A turn as assistant brewer at Jackrabbit added cellar patience.
He came home to Suisun Valley in 2024 as winemaker and brewer at Bally Keal. The photograph on this page is Adrian in the cellar with the house whites and a Cabernet. This vintage is his.
The house
Owner.
Winemaker.
The rows.
Joe Cassidy
County Clare, 1976. He built the 80-acre Suisun Valley estate as a place of farmsteads. The greeting is Cead Mile Failte, one hundred thousand welcomes.
Adrian Guerrero
Vacaville native. Fresno State enology. Mentored by Jeff Cohn at Rockpile, Silver Eagle, and Gary's Vineyard. Joined Bally Keal as winemaker and brewer in 2024.
Estate vineyards
Sixty-two acres of Cabernet, organically farmed, biodiesel tractors, Fish Friendly Farming. The rows behind the house.
The estate
Eighty acres in Suisun Valley.
Bally Keal sits at 4286 Suisun Valley Road in Fairfield. Suisun is a Patwin word for where the west wind blows. Warm days, cool nights, alluvial soils. The house farms 62 acres of Cabernet organically, with biodiesel tractors and Fish Friendly Farming. Stems and skins compost on site for three years.
This 2024 Sauvignon Blanc is not that estate Cabernet. It is a Bally Keal bottling labeled Sonoma Valley. The estate story is the welcome. The appellation is the climate. Keep that distinction on the list.
Winery operations run on a 100,000-watt solar array. Water is captured and reused so nothing leaves the vineyard into Suisun Creek. Serve this white as the cold glass, not as a cellar trophy.
2024 in the glass
Grapefruit.
Lime.
A mint snap.
Winery tasting notes lock grapefruit, lime zest, mint, and lemongrass. Dry and lively, citrus and gooseberry, a clean herbal finish. No 2024 critic tasting note is locked. San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition awarded Gold to this exact 2024 Sonoma Valley Sauvignon Blanc in January 2026. Drink it cold this year. No decant.
Menu and service
Built for a serious table.
- Oysters on ice with lemon
- Goat cheese salad with pear and vinaigrette
- Simple grilled fish with herbs
Serve near 47 F. Straight from a proper chill into a white-wine glass. No decant.
Staff pairing clip
Chef Thomson fires an oyster order
The tableside introduction
“This is Bally Keal's 2024 Sonoma Valley Sauvignon Blanc. Adrian Guerrero in the cellar, Joe Cassidy's Irish house. Grapefruit and mint. San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Gold. Pour it ice-cold with oysters.”
Ready for your team
Put the story to work.
Shelf talker
A concise bottle story for guest-facing displays. No trade price.
Download PDFServer card
The pitch, menu matches, and service notes in a compact format.
Download PDFFull trade sheet
Joe Cassidy, Adrian Guerrero, Sonoma Valley fruit, tasting, market context, and the case offer.
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Put Bally Keal Sauvignon Blanc on the list.
A Sonoma Valley white from an Irish house in Suisun Valley. Trade $15 a bottle, $180 the twelve-bottle case, one-case minimum.
