Pooley Jack Denis Pooley Pinot Noir 2022

Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: Australia, Tasmania, Coal River Valley

A single vineyard wine from Cooinda Vale, created to honour Jack Denis Pooley, known as Denis, who with his wife Margaret established Pooley Wines at Cooinda Vale in 1985.
Just 4 barrels made from some of the oldest vines (114 + 115 + Pommard clone) at Cooinda Vale from small yield of 6 tonnes/ha picked at 12.5 baume early April. Fruit was hand picked, 80 % destemmed and 20 % whole bunch. Wild fermentation on skins for 12 days then a 10 day post ferment maceration. Matured for 11 months in 50 % new French oak barriques (Cavin and St Martin).

‘Brooding notes of cedar, violets, cherry and warming spice on the nose. Blackberries, wild mushroom and black cherries delight the palate with underlying notes of earth and savoury tobacco. There’s a measured restraint to this wine with a crushed velvet texture and pitch-perfect acidity’ Anna Pooley, Winemaker.

‘Sourced from the Cooinda Vale Vineyard near Campania in the Coal River Valley; 20% whole bunch, matured for 11 months in 50% new French oak barriques. A step up in fruit intensity but still with the characteristic grace that is the leitmotif of the Pooley wines. Darker fruits – cherry, plum, forest berries cut with violets, vanilla, mushroom broth, dried tobacco, allspice and forest floor. Less gamey than other wines in the Pooley quiver but so long and harmonious, tannins compact and powdery and a sapid, umami angle to the fine acidity. Drink 2023-2038.’ 97 Points, Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion, April 2024.

Pooley Wines has an historical property and two separate vineyards in the Coal River Valley in southern Tasmania. The Coal River Valley has developed a worldwide reputation, and is ideally suited, for the production of cool-climate wines such as Pinot Noir, Riesling and Chardonnay. Members of the Pooley family have been actively involved in the business for three generations. Their longstanding passion and commitment to fine wine are your assurance of un-compromising quality.

Pooley Wines was established in 1985 when the late Denis and Margaret Pooley planted ten rows of Riesling and seven rows of Pinot Noir on their 16-hectare farm at Cooinda Vale in the Coal River Valley in southern Tasmania.

In 2003, John Pooley, son of Denis and Margaret, and his wife Libby bought Belmont Lodge, a heritage-listed Georgian home on the outskirts of Richmond. They have been lovingly renovating this second Pooley Wines Coal River Valley property, and planted vines on nearby Butchers Hill. In 2007 the first vintage of Pinot was produced from this steep vineyard site that overlooks the township of Richmond.