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NOTES
Jeanneret Wines began under fairly unusual circumstances when Denis, a Swiss chemist and his wife Patricia moved to Sevenhill in the Clare Valley, South Australia. Denis decided he’d have a go at self sufficiency and, as it turned out, he was very good at making his own wine and Jeanneret Wines was created in 1992. In 1994 Denis and Pat’s son, Ben, joined the business and built a winery and planted some vines on what is now the Stumbling Block Vineyard, on the hill behind the family home.
In 1999, the sudden death of Denis left Ben at the helm. Since the initial crush of about 5 tonnes, Jeanneret Wines now has the capacity to crush 350 tonnes annually and has become a very busy small winery. Today Ben employs a team of seven people, including an assistant winemaker, and produces around 12,000 cases of wine under the Jeanneret label.
TASTING NOTES
Deeply coloured, Curly Red has great depth of damson plum and blackcurrant fruit on the nose framed by aromas of cedarwood cigar box and spice. On the palate the Cabernet gives structure and the Merlot fleshes out the heart of the wine with its sweet ripe fruit: a classic example of the synergy between these varieties; its almost as if the Cabernet creates a wonderful stockade to contain (and throw into contrast) the mad, joyful exuberance of the Merlot – without the steadying hand of the Cabernet one can imagine things getting terribly out of control with Merlot racing around unrestrained everywhere…….and gardens, dining tables and shirtfronts all around the land might never be the same again. And then there’s the tannins from both the fruit and the oak: altogether sterner than the Cabernet but wonderfully integrated into the whole, and guiding the wine into a long, fine finish, still beautifully awash in blackcurrant fruit.
OTHER REVIEWS
Deep colour; full-bodied, and lusciously ripe black and red fruits basically tracking the cabernet and cabernet franc components, but malbec also evident; soft ripe tannins. Screwcap.15% alc. Rating 91 James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2009
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