Pooley Margaret Pooley Tribute Riesling 2020
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Variety: Riesling
Country: Australia, Tasmania, Coal River Valley
A single vineyard Riesling from the Cooinda Vale vineyard near Campania. From the oldest and best plantings at Cooinda Vale, whole bunch pressed with no time on skins due to the riper fruit from 2019. TA 8.5 g/l, RS 2.0 g/l, 13.5% alc
‘Hand-picked fruit from a Coal River Valley site planted 1998. Skin contact; fermented and matured 5 months on lees in stainless steel. A monumental Tasmanian riesling in which every detail has been intricately placed to fulfil its manifesto of grand character and profound endurance. A core of impeccable, spicy wild lemon is nuanced by stone-fruit exotics. Epic acidity, skin-contact phenolics, lees texture and RS unite in a crystalline display of glittering energy that promises decades in the cellar. Breathtaking line and length in the presence of profound fruit concentration confirm one of Tasmania's finest rieslings of the vintage. Margaret would be proud indeed. Drink by 2050.’ 97 points, Tyson Stelzer, Halliday Wine Companion, August 2021.
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.