2022 Grenache
Fresh, shimmery, but with this wonderful depth. A veritable layer cake of cherries and strawberries, spice, earth, pansies and violets. Balance is the key here, and it’s so wonderful to see a new wine, so poised. Pinot, Syrah and Lagrein are the wines best known from Cobaw, but for the first time in their history, Nelly and Alan have sourced fruit from outside of their own plot. It was their son that inspired them, Joshua Cooper, who had been making wines using fruit from Shay’s Flat in the ...Read More...
Fresh, shimmery, but with this wonderful depth. A veritable layer cake of cherries and strawberries, spice, earth, pansies and violets. Balance is the key here, and it’s so wonderful to see a new wine, so poised. Pinot, Syrah and Lagrein are the wines best known from Cobaw, but for the first time in their history, Nelly and Alan have sourced fruit from outside of their own plot. It was their son that inspired them, Joshua Cooper, who had been making wines using fruit from Shay’s Flat in the Pyrenees, they thought, why not?
Alan and Nelly Cooper have been farming biodynamically in the Macedon Ranges since 1985 and are truly up there with some of Australia’s best winemakers. They are an inspiration to us, and others.