2017 Joshua Cooper Captains Creek Chardonnay

Described by wine commentator Mike Bennie as "one of Australia’s brightest young winemakers”, Joshua Cooper is steadily forging a reputation for thoughtful, elegant, and confident wines from grapes grown in Macedon and surrounds. His captains Creek Chardonnay comes from a small organic vineyard located just outside the Macedon region close to Daylesford, planted to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The wine sees one year in oak on full lees, no stirring, and no racking, then transferred to stainless steel with all the fine lees for a further 6 months elevage. Before racking and bottling, unfined and unfiltered. The only addition to the wine is a small dose of sulphur the week before bottling.

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Western Victoria here, Josh Cooper’s favourite unofficial wine region. A few kilometres over the border from Macedon Ranges. Certified organic, from a mixed agriculture farm. Stunning wine.
Beautiful expression here, soulful, pure, flavoursome, not shy of showing off the assets of the grapes. Lemon balm and curd, faint young almond scents, green olive, citrus and citrus blossom. Tight and refreshing yet shows an inward juiciness, the wine feels of a modern expression, slightly left of centre with a wild streak of saline minerality and oatmeal savouriness, but wholly complex, delicious, long, stunning. Unreal.
96 points
Mike Bennie - Wine Front