Translation missing: en.ACellars Newsletter 22nd September , 2022 - Dormilona Tasting this Saturday + Joshua Cooper + WOTW: ACellars Newsletter 22nd September , 2022 - Dormilona Tasting this Saturday + Joshua Cooper + WOTW
It’s pretty rare these days - thanks to social media - that a set of wines actually lives up to the hype. The anticipation of scoring those sought-after rare bottles, or chasing down wines after a series of strong reviews and hoping they live up to expectations, is something a lot of us probably know all too well.
Enter Joshua Cooper’s new releases. A set of wines that year-in-year-out seem to receive more and more praise. And for good reason: they are bloody good.
Born into wine, the heir apparent to Cobaw Ridge and son of Alan and NellyCooper, Josh has had access to very good teachers and great fruit to play with. From his first vintage, a single barrel of fruit sourced from his parent’s estate in 2012, to the current evolution where he produces site driven wines that range from the serious to the more ethereal styles, Josh has gone from strength to strength.
Josh’s wines are right at the top of the tree when it comes to producers in the Macedon Ranges. His ability to capture the best a site has to offer each vintage, unaltered and pure, is simply magical. These are the kind of wines we love - modern, fresh and vibrant and breaking away from the conventions of old.As with all good things there isn’t a lot to go around - 6 bottles of each wine are currently available, and we don’t expect to get more.
Don’t let this be like that time in high school where you didn’t make the move... Do the right thing and scoop a Coop.
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In-Store Tasting:
Dormilona
This Saturday, September 24th
3pm - 6pm
Josephine Perry is anything but a lazybones.
Starting vintage work at Cape Mentelle at the tender young age of fourteen, Jo studied winemaking by distance, whilst gaining plenty of new and old world experience with vintages in the Rhône Valley, Burgundy, Bordeaux, Spain, New Zealand, California, Orange and of course the Margaret River. As if this extensive list was not enough, Jo has managed winemaking operations in Galicia, as well as consulting in the Canary Islands.
As the Galicians and Canarians would attest from these times,
"Jo no es una dormilona". / "Jo is not a sleepyhead".
But her winemaking style sure is.
Dormilona takes its Spanish name from the lazybones approach, or minimal intervention. Natural ferments, no additions, no fining, no filtration, just a tiny addition of sulfur to keep consistency across the bottles. Laying some of the whites to rest on their skins, Jo uses either steel or neutral oak to truly let the vineyard and the vintage speak through her wines.
The Margaret River fruit is all hand-harvested from vineyards farmed under organic and/or biodynamic principles, with the Chardonnay coming from Wallcliffe, and the Cabernet from Yallingup. The artwork on the labels depicts the soils that make up the Margaret River; whilst the name Yallingup means "place of caves" in the local Wardandi language, it could also mean "place of love", and either translation seems an appropriate expression of the terroir.
Join us this Saturday in-store as we taste the new releases of their House Wines range, Blanco, Orenji, Pinku, Tinto plus their new Crum Pet Pet Nat! Best name for a Pet Nat yet!
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WINE OF THE WEEK
Mas De Libian Vin de Petanque Rouge 2021
Every year this wine is a staff and customer favourite. The Mas de Libian wines especially the Vin de Petanque always disappear very quickly. Vin de Petanque is a Grenache dominant blend with a good splash of Syrah and Mourvedre which are more evident this year. It's the most serious and structured version of this wine I have tried. It still has all the hallmark ripe dark berry notes, lightweight as always but the tannin really adds another layer of excitement for me. - Pete L
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