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2025 Cobaw Ridge Release | Serious Cool-climate winemaking

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MW Wines

04/11/2026

On 04/11/2026

The Coopers’ vineyard sits 610 metres up on the cusp of the Great Dividing Range, on granitic, sandy soil in the cool climate of the Macedon Ranges. Alan and Nelly, both former nurses, bought the land near the Cobaw State Forest in 1981. They planted in 1985, when many doubted the Macedon Ranges would even make a viable wine region.

The vines sit in a natural amphitheatre. Every wine is estate grown, from a vineyard certified organic and biodynamic. The range is focused: Chardonnay, Syrah, and Pinot Noir in two bottlings, the Original Block and the High Density. Then there is the Lagrein, a variety that usually finds it’s home in the far north of Italy, yet which the Coopers manage to fashion into one of the country’s most fascinating and delicious wines.

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Meet the Maker: THE COOPER FAMILY

Forty years on, Alan and Nelly Cooper still run the whole operation themselves, from picking to bottling on the property. The hillside began with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet and Shiraz, and the vineyard has been refined over the years. Cabernet did not last, and neither did Vermentino. In 1993 the family grafted Lagrein, a red from Alto Adige in northern Italy and one of the first plantings of the variety in Australia. It took hold, and it now stands alongside Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Syrah as one of the four grapes the estate is built on.

Their son Josh learned his craft on that hillside, then gained experience in Burgundy at Domaine de la Vougeraie. He now works alongside his parents and makes wine under his own label, Joshua Cooper Wines.