Description

Viticulture: Sustainable
Doug’s Vineyard is situated on the outskirts of the township of Romsey in the Macedon Ranges.
Owned by the Newnham family, it was planted 20 years ago to predominantly MV6 and smaller
amounts of 114 and 115 clone pinot noir.
A cool hamlet, the vines sit at around 500m altitude, atop a North and North East facing hillside on
red rocky volcanic basalt soil, moderating vigour and providing amazing intensity to the fruit,
ripening small, beautifully formed clusters at low sugar levels.
Once hand harvested in the cool of morning, with careful sorting in the vineyard, grapes were
transferred to open fermenter with 20% as whole bunches and the remainder de-stemmed. The must
was then allowed to soak 4-5 days at its cool ambient temperature until fermentation commenced.
Thereafter the grapes were gently extracted by a combination of pumping over and pigeage by foot.
The wine was then pressed after a total of three weeks on skins and transferred to two new (Laurent
“Magic Cask” thick stave, blonde toast) seven young (2-4yo Laurent “Magic Cask”) and ten old
(6-10yo) oak Burgundian piece for lees ageing for 12 months, followed by four months in stainless
steel on fine lees before racking and bottling, unfined and unfiltered.
Pale ruby. Another elegant and ethereal vintage from this lovely vineyard. Full of raspberry and blackberry
fruit, rose petal and subtle crushed herb, it is deceptively concentrated. Long with ribbons of fine, silky
tannin and creamy pinot fruits, combined with the typical exotic spice always evident in the Doug’s cuvee.
Long, balanced and charming, while a joy to drink now cellaring is also recommended

Shortlisted – Best New Winery of the Year
Halliday Wine Companion Awards 2024
Gourmet Traveller Wine – Young Winemaker of the Year
Gourmet Traveller 2020
“One of Australia’s brightest young winemakers.”
Mike Bennie, Voyeur Magazine, May 2018
“Joshua Cooper is one of Australia’s brightest young stars”
Nick Stock, jamessuckling.com 2020
“Gary Farr (By Farr), Joshua Cooper and Robert Walters (Place of Changing Winds) should be
changing perceptions of Australian wine. These are in many cases delicate, elegant, refined wines
that deliver classic varietal expression and defy old stereotypes.”
Joe Czerwinski, robertparker.com 2021
“…Using grapes bought in from carefully chosen, non mainstream sources…However difficult the
bottles may be to get into, their contents are pretty impressive.”
Jancis Robinson, The Cool Macedon Ranges with Max, April 2018
“Such a talent, he could choose anywhere to make wine yet Macedon Ranges is home.”
Jane Faulkner Wine Companion June 2023