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Joshua Cooper Wines Doug's Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024

BOTTLE:
$80.00
Out of stock
SKU
100419
HALF-DOZEN: $456.00 or $76.00 each
DOZEN: $864.00 or $72.00 each

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Country: Australia
Region: Macedon
Grape: Pinot noir
Size: BTL
Vintage: 2024
Viticulture: Sustainable
Doug's Vineyard is situated on the outskirts of the township of Romsey in the Macedon Ranges.
Owned by the Newnham family, it was planted 20 years ago to predominantly MV6 and smaller
amounts of 114 and 115 clone pinot noir.
 
A cool hamlet, the vines sit at around 500m altitude, atop a North and North East facing hillside on
red rocky volcanic basalt soil, moderating vigour and providing amazing intensity to the fruit,
ripening small, beautifully formed clusters at low sugar levels.
 
Once hand harvested in the cool of morning, with careful sorting in the vineyard, grapes were
transferred to open fermenter with 20% as whole bunches and the remainder de-stemmed. The must
was then allowed to soak 4-5 days at its cool ambient temperature until fermentation commenced.
Thereafter the grapes were gently extracted by a combination of pumping over and pigeage by foot.
The wine was then pressed after a total of three weeks on skins and transferred to two new (Laurent
"Magic Cask" thick stave, blonde toast) seven young (2-4yo Laurent "Magic Cask") and ten 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.
 
Deep ruby. Bright, concentrated raspberry and blackberry fruit, rose garden in the morning due and potpourri complexed with exotic spice, and a flinty, mineral edge. Concentrated and fleshy throughout the mid plate and long with ribbons of fine velvety tannin and creamy pinot fruits, combined with the typical exotic spice always evident in the Doug's cuvee.
 
One of our best vintages from this lovely site, showing the exceptional combination of freshness, depth and structure in an elegant frame. Cellaring will be well rewarded. JOSH COOPER