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$75.00
Essence of cabernet, hard country style. Complexity dialled up, the savoury fruit and textural elements roped tight as if it’s going to take a lot of muscle to prise them loose. Blackcurrant, mulberry, blackberry, black olive, licorice, pink peppercorns, soy and cumin. Concentrated and deep, the tannins providing great width, focus and envelopment. Would love to see this bottled in large formats and retasted as an old man. Awesome. Waters Wine Co
Deep, dense ruby. Very reticent aromatically, with air revealing sweet dark cherry and cassis fruit, tobacco, nutmeg and just a hint of tomato leaf. Sturdy and firm, it is fleshy with dark cherry and berry fruit and densely packed with layers and layers of fine, mouth-filling tannins. A wine to contemplate while it opens in the glass. Please decant well.
Planted in the mid 90’s and owned and organically farmed by the Joy family in the Warrenmang Valley of the Pyrenees. This spectacularly undulating site planted in shale, quartz and mudstone soils sits in a late ripening pocket- providing immense depth and structure to the wines with powerful fruit and fleshy structure.
Once hand harvested the fruit was entirely de-stemmed, then partially foot crushed before transfer to open fermenters where it remained for three weeks. The must was allowed to soak until natural fermentation commenced and was then extracted with a combination of pumping over, delestage and pigeage before basket pressing. Elevage took place in a combination of new Stockinger 300l (30%) and seasoned thin staved Bordeaux coopered barriques for 12 months, before four months in stainless steal after assemblage. Winemaker’s Notes
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Josh Cooper is the son of Nelly and Allan Cooper of Cobaw Ridge winery in the Macedon Ranges, a producer of incomparable regard. Interestingly, Josh sources his fruit from outside the family farm, but growing up in the Macedon Ranges he has an intimate knowledge of the region, its vineyards and growers. We have not yet come across a finer suite of negociant wines in Australia.
Bright, pure, translucent, textural, delicate and poised, with a long and lingering carry. Layered complexity, flavours and textures interwoven, seamlessly stitched, the balance is perfect, no flavour or texture dominating, an equality of components.
Beautiful flavours are one thing, but what elevates Josh Cooper’s wines into grandness is their texture, shape and tannin. Billowing, eddying – their shape all movement, pirouetting, rippling, and caressing. No wine feels as another, but they all share a gentle palate presence, a pelt of velvet, silk or longer woodier tannins.