Joshua Cooper 'Dash Farm' Chardonnay 2022

Producer Notes - "Planted 1999 Dash Farms sits perched at over 450m asl on the Southern granitic slopes of Mt Alexander (Leanganook) looking back towards Mt Macedon and the Macedon Ranges. Like Ray-Monde, it sits just outside the Macedon Ranges GI. Ripening for Chardonnay occurs

around a week earlier than my family's vineyard Cobaw Ridge.

These lean granite soils and high altitude confer both concentration and freshness at low sugar

levels. Once hand harvested with careful sorting in the vineyard, the bunches were partially crushed

by foot and very gently pressed. Overnight settling then occurs before transfer to a combination of new Stockinger 300l oak and Burgundian piece for fermentation and lees ageing for 12 months.

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 sulphur.

Pale, with a green edge, Dash Farm offers glass filling aromas of lemon and grapefruit rind, nectarine, jasmine and spice. Flavours with carry through to the medium bodied palate combined with creamy, savoury complexity and a fine acid line."

Country: Australia
Region: Central Victoria