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Joshua Cooper

2021

‘Ray-Monde Vineyard’

Pinot Noir   |   Port Phillip - Australia
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About

The Ray-Monde Vineyard was established in 1988 by the Lakey family, in South Gisborne at 1,300 feet above sea level on the Southern edge of the Macedon Ranges GI, to which it once belonged. The gently Northeast facing 12-acres of Pinot Noir form a small part of the 570-acre grazing farm. The vineyard is unique for the area, being planted gravelly ironstone and basaltic clay soils, with very little topsoil 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.

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 four to five 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 aging for 12 months. This was 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 sulfur.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
  • Vineyard: Ray-Monde Vineyard
  • Vine Age: 33-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: 3 weeks
  • 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: 3.8
  • Total Acidity: 4.5 g/L
  • Total SO2: 60 ppm
  • Total Production: 333 cases

Tasting Note

Garnet. Ray-Monde is filled with the aromas and flavors of black cherry, kirsch, violet, spice, sweet damp earth and peat. Medium bodied with long, fine, silky tannin it is a very “gourmand” wine. 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

96

"Very savoury, game meat, sweet, turned earth, dried leaf, truffle and dark cherry fruit characters to sniff on. Darker berries to taste, not a lick of sweet fruit anywhere here, truffle and crushed rock minerality with licks of eucalyptus and mint just barely there. Washes over the palate beautifully, a loose knit expression but with a building, lacy web of granitic tannin. An impressive, outstanding pinot noir very much marching to its own beat. Complexity, detail, interest. One to pause over in big glasses, and great right now."

- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
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Joshua Cooper

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Port Phillip

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Australia

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