Joshua Cooper Wines

"...a star winemaker who has firmly planted his reputation in a relatively short while, but with aplomb..."
Mike Bennie, The Wine Front

Josh Cooper is a renowned winemaker known for his exceptional skills, dedication, and passion for producing high-quality wines. He uses sustainable practices and innovative techniques to create unique and distinctive wines that showcase the vineyards from where he sources his grapes. His reputation among wine enthusiasts worldwide is well-deserved.

All wines below are available now at our special offer prices for the next 7 days only. To place your order simply click on the links below or return the attached form, by email, by fax on 03 9419 6970 or call us on 03 9419 6990.

2018 Straws Lane Sparkling Rose
Extremely Limited - $150

"An extremely limited release years in the making.

While working in the vineyards of Chablis in 2012 I was lucky enough to spend some incredibly inspiring time visiting the cellars of Champagne’s grower-producers. None spoke to me more than a remarkable evening spent with Jerome Prevost of La Closerie, whose wines remain my most favourite expressions of grower Champagne. The sense that Champagne could and maybe should be produced as a wine first and sparkling second has resonated since. Picking ripe, extracting carefully in the press, slow aging in barrel on lees native to the wine itself- and then crucially, a very minimal time on tirage lees. So as to not dilute the character of the vineyard.

Vivid pale pink in the glass, a sherried top note owing to the flor aging precedes a nose of rose garden, red apple skin and small red berries. Time in the glass revives spice and vanilla bean complexity.

The palate is long and powerful, with a refreshing small fine bead (the wine was also bottled with minimal pressure in mind). Talc-like phenolics from skins and stems provided a bracing structure to the concentrated red berry fruit, finishing clean and dry.

25 dozen bottled"
Joshua Cooper, Winemaker

2022 Old Vine Cuvee I
Usually $189 - Special Offer $179

"This is a blend of four vineyards 45% Greytown, 37.5% Balgownie, 15% Redbank and 2.5% Williams Vineyard. The detail from Josh explains that Greytown is a 1950s co-planted site of shiraz and cabernet from the northeastern side of Heathcote, Balgownie is the prized 1970s block from there which features in another Josh Cooper wine with stunning results. Redbank is the 1970s planted cabernet as nurtured by legendary Stuart Anderson (ex-Balgownie) and Neill Robb, while the dash of Williams Vineyard makes for an interesting inclusion off a site also planted in the 1970s, that ended up in notable wines under the Flynn and Williams brand. The wine spends time in one year old oak of two sizes and styles.

It’s a very elegant, old school-good school feeling wine. I think the first comment, and first reaction, was that toasty, spicy oak is a strong influence in the wine, but not untoward per se, just a bigger player than expected in comparison to other Josh Cooper cabernet releases. It feels a little gritty in a way, good, and the extension of flavour is superb, dark cherry, cassis, violet floral notes with liquorice, dried herbs and faint eucalyptus are in the mix. Fruit tannins are lithe, drawing the wine into a composed, medium weight, flow and pucker. It’s a wine that feels like it perhaps would be best in a year or two, or released as such, to find that immersion of woody spice in a better place, but you can readily appreciate a wine of elegance, grand scent and flavour, and of course promise. It’s pretty darn great."
94+ Points
Mike Bennie, The Wine Front

These wines are available now at our special offer prices for the next 7 days only. To place your order simply click on the links above or return the attached form, by email, by fax on 03 9419 6970 or call us on 03 9419 6990.

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