Pooley Jack Denis Pooley Pinot Noir 2024

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

Just 4 barrels made from some of the oldest vines (115 + Abel + Pommard clone) at Cooinda Vale from small yield of 5.5 tonnes/ha picked at 12.5 baume early April. Fruit was hand picked, 100 % destemmed before wild fermentation on skins for 14 days then a 8 day post ferment maceration. Matured for 14 months in 50 % new French oak barriques (Cavin and St Martin).
13.5 % alc/vol; 3.48 pH; 6.1 g/L TA.

‘Delicate and complex aromas of vanilla, dried herbs & bitter orange. Juniper, blood orange, kumquat underpinned by savoury preserved meats, mulberry and cranberry. Anna Pooley, Winemaker.

‘The Pooley icon pinot noir is sourced from the Cooinda Vale vineyard near Campania in the Coal River Valley. Again, it doesn't disappoint with its graceful lines and long draw of pure fruit. Enticing aromas of dark plum and cherry conserve fruits with hints of charcuterie, souk-like spice, raspberry, leaf litter, fresh porcini, meadow flowers, light, nutty oak, dried citrus rind and cherry clafoutis. The fruit stretches out on the palate, pure and true, with an elegant fine-grained tannin frame, a savoury mineral-laden line and a persistence of flavour that shows great harmony and resolve.’ 96 Points, Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion.

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.