Stats
- Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
- Vineyard: Ray-Monde Vineyard
- Vine Age: 32-years-old
- Soil Type: Gravelly ironstone & basalt loam over hardened blue slate
- Viticulture: Practicing Organic – regenerative & dry-farmed
- Fermentation: Native – open-top stainless-steel (100% whole-cluster)
- Skin Contact: ≈ 21 days
- Aging: 12 months in thick staved 228l French oak barrique followed by a further 4 months aging on fine lees in stainless-steel
- Alcohol: 12.5%
- pH: 3.9
- Total Acidity: 4.8
- Total SO2: 50 ppm
- Total Production: 100 cases
Tasting Note
Bright garnet. Aromas and flavors of black cherry, kirsch, violet, spice, sweet damp earth and peat. Medium-bodied with long, fine, silky tannins it is a very much a wine for the table. Approachable in youth due to the beautiful balance, the tannic presence and quality suggest it should also age gracefully, gaining additional complexity along the journey.
Press & Reviews
The Wine Front
92+
"From the regenerative farm of Ray-Monde Vineyard comes pinot noir of Joshua Cooper’s bidding. Ray-Monde always puts me in mind of the Rayman video games, for some reason.
Scents of ripe cherry, brambles and undergrowth, sweet manure, truffle, old campfire and wet bark. Flavours savoury too, tannins gummy and late to come into play, the wine finishes a bit short and with a sappy and sooty, smoked meat finish. Dark cherry, dark plum flavours before that, even a touch of espresso and clove in the mix. A darker, earthier release, a bit disjointed at present, the quiet smoky spice element a niggle. Still, a charming wine of grand savouriness on hand."
- Mike Bennie
Scents of ripe cherry, brambles and undergrowth, sweet manure, truffle, old campfire and wet bark. Flavours savoury too, tannins gummy and late to come into play, the wine finishes a bit short and with a sappy and sooty, smoked meat finish. Dark cherry, dark plum flavours before that, even a touch of espresso and clove in the mix. A darker, earthier release, a bit disjointed at present, the quiet smoky spice element a niggle. Still, a charming wine of grand savouriness on hand."
- Mike Bennie
James Suckling
96
"With very vivid strawberry and bright red-cherry aromas and flavors, this is complex from the outset and the fruit really shines through. There’s 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."