Juniper Canvas Tempranillo 2020
- 93
- $29
- Drink by: 2022-2029
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This is a wine that is part of Juniper’s ‘have a crack at anything’ range. In other words, the winemaking team get a chance to go crazy. It’s a blend of 5 clones, mostly Tempranillo with small additions of Graciano and Petit Verdot off the Karridale vineyard. A feature is the balance of oak and fruit, the result of no new oak being used. There’s a typical Tempranillo rustic aroma which pokes into the palate. Bright red fruits then emerge with a slight chalky tannin control. Finishes dry and slightly chalky, which makes it an ideal food wine.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
