Joshua Cooper - Ray-Monde Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021

Name: Joshua Cooper - Ray-Monde Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021
Brand: AUSTRALIA / Joshua Cooper
SKU: 1AUJCR011B
Price: 340.0 MYR
Availability: InStock

Product Details

Type: Red

Country: Australia

Region: Victoria

Grape Varieties: Pinot Noir

Body: Medium

Sweetness: Dry

Alcohol Level: 14.00%

Farming: Environmental friendly

Weight: 1.00 kg

Tasting Note

"With very vivid strawberry and bright red-cherry aromas and flavors, this is complex from the outset and the fruit really shines through. Theres plenty of perfume, too. Very silky texture with smooth, fine tannins and a silky, fresh resolve. Pomegranate and cherry essence to close. Vibrant. Drink or hold."

96 pts Nick Stock (James Suckling)

Vineyard & Winemaking

The Ray-Monde Vineyard is in South Gisborne at 400m above sea level on the Southern edge of the Macedon Ranges GI to which it once belonged. The gently North-East facing 5ha of Pinot Noir form a small part of the 230ha grazing farm now managed by John and Tristia Lakey, on which sheep, cattle, chicken and more are reared, with an emphasis on sustainable grazing and re-vegetation.

The vineyard is unique for the area, being planted gravelly ironstone and basaltic clay soils, with very little top soil and a huge amount of Bluestone rock just below the surface. This lean soil together with vine age results in incredibly concentrated grapes, with thick skins and ripe stems even at low sugar levels. Typically, ripening occurs around a week earlier than Dougs Vineyard.

Once hand harvested in the cool of morning, with careful sorting in the vineyard, 100% was transferred as whole cluster to open fermenters. The must was then allowed to soak 4-5 days at its cool ambient temperature until fermentation commenced. There after the grapes were gently extracted by a combination of pumping over and pigeage by foot.

The wine then pressed after a total of three weeks on skins and transferred to a single new (Laurent Magic Cask thick stave, blonde toast) one one year old Stockinger 300l and three old (6-10yo) oak Burgundian piece for lees ageing for 12 months. Followed by four months in stainless steel on fine lees, before racking and bottling, unfined and unfiltered. The only addition to the wine is a small dose of sulphur.