Joshua Cooper Pyrenees Sauvignon Blanc 2024

Certified organic fruit planted in the mid 90’s and owned and organically farmed by the Joy family in the Warrenmang Valley of the Pyrenees. This spectacularly undulating site planted in shale, quartz and mudstone soils sits in a late ripening pocket- providing immense depth and structure to the wines with powerful fruit and fleshy structure. Once hand harvested with careful sorting in the vineyard, the bunches were partially crushed by foot and very gently pressed. Overnight settling then occurs before transfer to a combination of new Stockinger 300l oak and Burgundian piece for fermentation and lees ageing for 12 months. This is then followed by four months in stainless steel on fine lees, before racking and bottling, unfined and unfiltered.