Jumping Juice Single Vineyard Grenache 2021 (6 Bottles) McLaren Vale

by Principal Wines

$186.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Besides their signature fun and colorful blends, the JJ guys also recently started to make more serious single-vineyard wines from the most interesting sites they discovered, such as this yum Grenache from 80-year-old bush vines in the South.

As Xavier says: “A great family-run vineyard that we have started this new relationship with. A pretty warm maritime climate that’s perfect for organic farming, as they don’t get a lot of rain. Very exciting!”

Grapes: Grenache

Vineyard: old bush vines with low yields planted in the 1940s on sandy soils. Dry farmed, practicing organics. Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale, South Australia

Making of: 25% of the grapes kept as whole bunches, the rest as de-stemmed berries over the top. Two-week maceration with gentle daily pump-overs before pressing into old barrique for 10 months elevage. Bottled unfined, unfiltered, with a small amount of SO2.

Personality: light and crunchy while also nicely layered, with delicate notes of herbs and ripe dark fruit – cool balance between drinkability and seriousness! Give it a nice chill and drink quickly if you want to tickle its juicy carbonic side, or keep for a while if you want to see the old-vine concentration evolve.

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About  Jenny & François Selections

We present the wines of small vineyards in this competitive worldwide market, in order to defend an endangered species — winemakers who work like artisans, crafting a different wine each year. They do not impose a preconceived taste on their wines, but look to be surprised by what nature gives them — natural wines.

Natural wines are low-tech or no-tech. These are handmade wines in the truest sense from a group of passionate winemakers that go one step further than organic and biodynamic producers by using organic methods in the cellar as well as in the vineyard — meaning no laboratory yeasts, enzymes, sugar, artificial concentrators, acidification, or sulfites are added during fermentation, and the wines are aged and bottled without stabilizers, or excessive filtering or sulfites.

Equally important, these grower-producers take special care to reduce yields, handpick the grapes, avoid pumps or other rough treatment of their harvest, and plow the earth between the vines, which forces the roots to dive down deep in a thirsty search for terroir.

Natural wines, pure wines, real wines, wines from the terroir, complex wines, wines for thirst!

This philosophy of winemaking differentiates these wines from the all too common taste of technology-driven wines, and offers us what wines should — mystery, romance, and adventure!

We created Jenny & François Selections in 2000. We distribute our wines in New York ourselves, through USA Wine Imports. We also work with fabulous distributors in other states across the USA. We feel close in philosophy and goals to movements such as Fair Trade and Slow Foods, as well as environmental movements. Our hope is that Jenny & François Selections helps passionate winemakers, who respect the environment and high standards of quality, to continue what they do by bringing their wines to the United States. We love to educate about natural wines, and share our excitement for these wines with passionate wine professionals and individuals across the US.

Principal Wines

We are wine lovers with no agenda, except to work with people who grow grapes, and to put their wines into the hands of people we respect.

We bring many years’ collective experience working in restaurants and winemaking to Principal Wine and think we have a pretty good idea of how a great glass of wine tastes.

Things change all the time in the world of wine, but our core values always remain the same - to work with people who make their wine in the vineyard, to have fine wine to sell to places we’d like to drink ourselves, and to provide excellent service.

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