Joshua Cooper Wines - Pyren Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc - 2023

Barrel fermented and aged on lees for a year – explains why this has wonderful texture and definition. Plenty of excellent flavour within: lemon and limes, nettles and fresh basil, honeycomb and nougat plus ginger cream; it’s a little smoky and savoury. The refreshing acidity tempers everything and creates a lingering finish. This is very good. And delicious. 95 Points Jane Faulkner, The Halliday Wine Companion From the Pyren Vineyard which is, funnily enough, in Pyrenees. The idea here is to make a medium bodied white wine and produced very much like Josh Cooper’s chardonnay wines. Also, a slightly later pick to get some flavour packed into the wine. A nod in the direction of Francois Cotat, explains Josh. Fragrant with a mesh of stone fruits, preserved lemon, ginger, almond savouriness and some fir tree and fern elements in tow. The palate similarly set, squeaky in texture with good concentration of flavour, tart stone fruit, ginger, almost a pine needle piquancy to taste and licks of cinnamon/clove and almond again. Tightly wound, elegant, refined and destined for good cellaring. Spot on. 94 Points Mike Bennie, The Wine Front