Description

Planted 1999, Dash Farms sits perched at over 450m asl on the Southern granitic slopes of Mt
Alexander (Leanganook) looking back towards Mt Macedon and the Macedon Ranges. Like RayMonde, it sits just outside the Macedon Ranges GI. An extremely late ripening site for Cabernet
Sauvignon, the fruit was harvested in late April.
Hand harvested with strict fruit sorting in the vineyard, bunches were then 100% de-stemmed and
partially foot crushed before loading into open fermenters where they remained for three weeks.
The must was allowed to soak until natural fermentation commenced and then extracted with a
combination of pumping over, delestage and pigeage before basket pressing.
Elevage took place in a combination of new Stockinger 300l (30%) and seasoned thin staved
Bordeaux coopered barriques for 12 months, before four months in stainless steel after assemblage.
The only addition to the wine is a small dose of sulphur.
The mountainside nature of Dash Farm provides incredible freshness to the wine. Deep, inky purple
with intense violet, seaweed and cassis, and graphite, sweet herb and spice attest to the cool nature
of the site.
Only medium weight though remarkably intense, it presents as the most “Claret” style of the three
Cabernet Sauvignon cuvées, full of small dark berry fruit with fine gravelly tannins. Incredibly
satisfying in youth for its dark fruit and freshness, this cuvée will reward with additional complexity
with medium term cellaring.

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