J.P. Chenet Classic Cabernet-Syrah

My fiancee and I have recently moved house, before we even made our beds we had bought a new wine rack that houses sixty (count them 6~0) bottles of wine. This was important to him because he feels he is somewhat of a conoisseur. I try to tell him that being in a wine club doesn't make you Jilly Goolden but he won't have it. So anyway, we decreed that in order to keep the rack full, every weekly shop we did, we should buy three bottles of wine (on special offer only) to supplement the quarterly case delivered from the wine club. So, three weeks ago, the weekly shop fell to me and JP Chenet was on offer, three bottles for a tenner or six for £19, ...  Read the complete review

If red wine is my passion, then mass producing wine companies are the oversized cotton pyjamas that kill it! Chenet is an example of such a company, who seemingly relish in the destruction of everything good about wine. Gallo, Blossom hill, they all do it. You see, the creation of wine is an art. Winemakers are paid obscene amounts of money to create their masterpieces, and it has long since been my opinion that these mass producers undermine what they do. A winemaker knows his grapes, knows what the current years crop are like, and creates a wine based on the characteristics that this seasons fruit have taken on. By this, I mean that different weather ...  Read the complete review

As someone who rarely drinks red wine I have only recently begun drinking J.P. Chenet , Cabernet-Syrah . As of late both myself and my husband are always taking medication and as such we try to be careful ,only occasionally drinking alcohol . Still I should think we have consumed much more than our fair share in the past . Added to this Hubby suffers with migraines and steers well clear of red wine . Recently when my brother visited he bought a bottle of the Red Cabernet-Syrah and I'm afraid to say I have become quite hooked. I justify this by only having one or two glasses at the most , at any one sitting , and assuring my self that the odd glass of red wine ...  Read the complete review