Joshua Cooper - Ray-Monde Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022
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Joshua Cooper - Ray-Monde Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022
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
A little shy at first but rapidly evolving in the glass. Expressive red floral scents, with fresh red berries fruits, light spices and earth. At 12.5% alc, this is delicate on the palate, without compromising its depth of flavours, reminiscent of a nice Burgundy. Fine grained tannin well balanced by the crunchy fruits and light savouriness. What really strikes me is the textural richness, long and lingering with fresh minerality. The light tannic presence at the very end suggested this will continue to develop better complexity in a few years later. - DC - Oct-2021
Rating: (96 Winefront)
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.
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