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Joshua Cooper

2021

‘Dash Farms’

Chardonnay   |   Victoria - Australia
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About

Planted in 1999, Dash Farms sits at nearly 1500 ft. 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. Ripening for Chardonnay occurs around a week earlier than Josh’s family’s vineyard, Cobaw Ridge. The lean granite soils and high altitude confer both concentration and freshness at low sugar levels.

Once hand harvested with careful sorting in the vineyard, the bunches were partially crushed by foot and very gently pressed. Overnight settling then occurs before transfer to a combination of new Stockinger 300l oak and Burgundian piece for fermentation and lees aging for 12 months. This is 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.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Chardonnay
  • Vineyard: Dash Farms
  • Vine Age: 25-years-old
  • Soil Type: Decomposed granite
  • Viticulture: Conventional
  • Fermentation: Native – barrel fermented
  • Skin Contact: None
  • Aging: 12 months in barrel followed by 4 months in stainless-steel
  • Alcohol: 12.5%
  • pH: 3.2
  • Total Acidity: 5.5 g/L
  • Total SO2: 80 ppm
  • Total Production: 333 cases

Tasting Notes

Pale, with a green edge, this Chardonnay offers glass filling aromas of lemon and grapefruit rind, nectarine, jasmine and spice. Flavors carry through to the medium bodied palate combined with creamy, savory complexity and a fine acid line. Exquisite.

Press & Reviews

The Wine Front

96

"Texture and grace, a refinement and supreme length, fragrant, bright with chardonnay grape flavours and coursing with a mineral pulse that mixes briny tang and silty, talc-like powderiness. In the mix, a lick of nuttiness, oatmeal, barely there, beautiful though in the carriage of green apple and lemony-fresh vitality. Light, puckering tannin shapes things well and the wine finishes mouth-watering, minerally again and lightly nutty. Superb. Just. Damn. Superb."

- Mike Bennie

Producer


Joshua Cooper

Region


Victoria

Country


Australia

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