2020 Pooley Butchers Hill Chardonnay 375ml

Highly Rated
Power-packed Tasmanian Chardonnay from a seriously impressive winemaking pair, taking this great producer to new levels.

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With each vintage of the Butcher's Hill Chardonnay from the Pooley Family its reputation increases.

The Chardonnay fruit from this block once was a portion of the Penfold's Yattarna Chardonnay, but here it struts its own stuff.

In this Chardonnay you see the purity and the drive that is characteristic of the site - it sits right at the top of the tree for Tasmanian Chardonnay.

This is a delicious, refined wine, a little rounder than its Cooinda Vale sibling, but no less sublime.

Rich and weighted with unfurling notes of bruised golden apple, wet wool, grapefruit peel, lime tart, and wattle on the nose, with further developing notes of salted butter, flint and orchard fruits as the wine opens in the glass. There’s a lovely balance with superlative texture and knife-edge tension.


The Butchers Hill Vineyard located in Richmond at the historic Belmont Lodge was established in 2003. The vineyard is a prominent feature to the Richmond landscape as it protrudes from the borders of the town. The steep north facing slope of this site starting from 30m-100m above sea level means that it receives some very long sunlight hours, protection from cold southern winds and increased drainage of soils.

96 Points - "Gorgeous chardonnay. Custard apples and custard powder, lime and white peach, a touch of grapefruit and a perfect seasoning of spicy oak. Such drive, such precision, such length. This is outstanding." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

92 Points - "Medium to full yellow colour with a straw tint. The bouquet is savoury, with yeast lees and snuffed-candle touches, while the palate is restrained and tight, lean and long, if slightly pinched. Some discreet work has gone into this wine, but doesn't dominate the fruit. A fine wine with potential." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

95 Points - "Hand-picked fruit, chilled to 5ËšC overnight; whole-bunch pressed; 22-day wild-yeast ferment in barrel, 40% mlf; matured in French oak (40% new) for 9 months. A wine of purity, elegance and finesse, making light work of its new oak. It is at the dawn of what will be a long life, its balance a guarantee of the good things to come." - James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)

Pooley

Pooley is one of the leading family-owned wineries in Tasmania, renowned for their exquisite Single Vineyard examples of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Riesling from the Coal River region, less than an hour north of Hobart.

The family vineyard was planted in 1985 by Margaret and Denis Pooley. Today it is in the hands of the third generation of Pooleys, with award-winning winemaker Anna Pooley heading up the cellar and her brother Matt as viticulturalist. They make a killer team and the family business is going from strength to strength.

Anna's wines are pure, refined and eminently cellar-worthy. A class-act producer setting a cracking pace for all of Tasmania to follow.

Winemaker Anna Pooley Pooley

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