2015 Jean-François Ganevat Côtes du Jura Cuvée de l'enfant terrible

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  2/14/2022 - Vas19 wrote: 91 Points

  Pretty classic poulsard, perhaps in a slightly riper register. Earthy and reductive notes, doesn't achieve the heights that other poulsards can reach.

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  9/23/2019 - Tree512 wrote: 93 Points

  Easily the best Ganevat rouge I’ve ever had. Light on its feet but full of savory notes, ready to go with loads of depth and a strong finish.

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  4/28/2019 - wgmccallum Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Intense floral aromas of bright berries, dry hay, dusty medicinal herbs. Dark, dry fruit on the palate, with a bit of spritz. Excellent with garlic rosemary shrimp and asparagus with hollandaise sauce.

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  3/24/2018 - canan wrote: 91 Points

  Ganevat Bonanza (RR Frederiksberg): Quite sweet strawberry fruit but also a piercing acidity in the aftertaste.
  It also has some barnyard, black pepper and dirt. Lovely and spice-driven wine.

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  4/27/2017 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  13% alcohol - feels like atypically high for Poulsard.
  
  Very slightly hazy pale pomegranate color. Very open and ridiculously aromatic nose with rich nuances of rowanberry marmalade, cooked rose hips, some peppery spice, a sweet, lifted hint of VA and a touch of bretty funk. The wine is ripe, light-to-medium bodied and somewhat wild on the palate with fresh and characterful flavors of crunchy raspberries, rose hips, some slightly volatile floral nuances, a hint of peppery spice and a piercing touch of stony mineral bitterness. Typical of Poulsard, the wine feels a bit thin, but conversely also very intense, due to the relatively high acidity. There are no tannins to speak of. The finish is long, wild and crunchy with pure and vibrant flavors of tart cranberries, crunchy raspberries, some phenolic smoky character and a hint of stony bitterness.
  
  A remarkably balanced and serious Poulsard that feels like a real red wine and not just like a deep rosé, as they so often do. Of course this is still not a big nor a particularly structured for a red wine - more akin to a lighter end of Cru Beaujolais - but a remarkably fresh, intense and complex effort for a Poulsard. This is not just a simple, light-bodied everyday red, but instead a wine that'll stand up against heartier foods and offers sufficient depth and complexity to keep more demanding wine geeks happy. It's impressive how much depth and gravitas Ganevat can coax out of this normally so underwhelming variety. Very lovely.

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