Pooley Riesling 2025

Variety:  Riesling
Country:  Australia, Tasmania, Coal River Valley

The 2025 Pooley Riesling comes primarily from estate vineyards (with a little coming from a well established Riesling vineyard nearby on Middle Tea Tree Rd) being a blend of fruit from younger vines from Butchers Hill and Cooinda Vale. Harvested from 1st April through to 17th April and cooled overnight to 5c then whole bunch pressed and aged for 4 months on fine lees before bottling. An ideal vintage for Tasmania and for the Coal River region. Clones D2V3, GM118 and G119, harvested between 28 March and 15 April and bottled on 14th August 2025.
12.8% alc/vol; 1.2 g/L RS; 2.95 pH; 8.0 g/L TA.

Opening with candied orange zest and mandarin the clean acidity revitalises the palate and clears the way for lime cordial, apple sherbet, dry honeysuckle and white jasmine to finish off this outstanding cool-climate riesling. Anna Pooley, Winemaker.

2025 review. ‘Pale straw in the glass with aromas of grapefruit, green apple and citrus with hints of pressed wildflowers, crushed stone, clover blossom, ozone, crème fraîche and distant mountain herbs. Taut and vivid with a satisfying citrus flow and steely, mineral velocity, finishing sleek, dry and focused. Drink 2023-2035.’
93 Points, Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion, March 2025.

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.