Joshua Cooper 'Dash Farms' Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
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- TASTING NOTE: "Bright garnet. This vintage shows incredibly vibrancy, with lavender, violet and creamy cassis fruit filling the nose and a savoury, graphite complexity in the background. Medium bodied, but fully flavoured and packed with fine fruit tannin, with just a seasoning of oak. Again, creamy cassis, red cherry and raspberry flood the mouth, with graphite and subtle crushed ivy lend intrigue, finishing powdery and dry. Decent well and enjoy the youthful vibrancy or cellar into the medium term for additional complexity." Joshua Cooper
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ABOUT THE WINE: Planted 1999. Dash Farms sits perched at over 450m asl on the Southern granitic slopes of Mt Alexander (Leanganook) looking back towards Mt Macedon and the Macedon Ranges. Like Ray-Monde, it sits just outside the Macedon Ranges GI. An extremely late ripening site for Cabernet Sauvignon, the fruit was harvested in late April. Hand harvested with strict fruit sorting in the vineyard, bunches were the 100% destemmed and partially foot crushed before loading into open fermenters where they remained for three weeks. The must was allowed to soak until natural fermentation commenced and then extracted with a combination of pumping over, delestage and pigage 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. The only addition to the wine is a small dose of sulphur. The mountainside nature of Dash Farm provides incredible freshness to the wine. Deep, inky purple with intense violet, seaweed and cassis, and graphite, sweet herb and spice attest to the cool nature of the site.
- ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Joshua Cooper is a second generation vigneron hailing from the Macedon Ranges. His family winery is the biodynamically certified Cobaw Ridge and the family philosophies of organic/biodynamic farming and minimal intervention winemaking carry over into his personal label. Fruit is sourced from trusted, cool climate growers around Victoria. The wines are made in tiny amounts and have quickly gained a cult following for their fine, aromatic quality and delicate, fruit driven stylings.
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Mount Alexander, Central Victoria
- VARIETAL: Cabernet Sauvignon
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Joshua Cooper
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention, Minimal Sulphites, Sustainable Farming
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 13.5%
- SIZE: 750ml
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