2023 Pooley Cooinda Vale Pinot Noir

Highly Rated
One of Tasmania's finest Pinot Noirs, the concentrated single-vineyard Cooinda Vale.

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From one of the rising star vineyards of Tasmania and a superstar production team comes this effortlessly pure Pinot Noir.

Winemaker Anna Pooley is carving out a name for herself through consistently producing exceptional single site wines from the vineyards under her control. This Pinot Noir from Cooinda Vale is just one more notch on her well-notched belt. Cooinda Vale is wine of impressive concentration and elegance, a touchstone of quality for the Coal River Valley.

It's lithe in frame, supple yet powerful. A beguiling style to attract enthusiasts of Pinot Noir from Tasmania.

96 points
"This is just superb. It has perfume, ripe strawberry and cherry, shows a little creamy spicy oak at this early stage, though it’s good oak and it sits well within the wine. It’s plush, yet stony and fine, concentration of fruit is outstanding, and the mouth-feel is wonderful. It’s super long. It has some gently earthy character, and that fine ‘mineral’ acidity closing it out is so nice. This is an absolute banger."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

96 points
"Bright ruby with aromas of red cherry, redcurrant and red plum cut with hints of fine spice, amaro, crushed rock, leaf litter, char siu, game meats, distant truffle and earth. The Pooley wines are so beautifully composed and calm. There is a real sense of grace on the palate, its travel long, true and balanced, its drinkability and elegance undisputed."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

 

96 points - "This is just superb. It has perfume, ripe strawberry and cherry, shows a little creamy spicy oak at this early stage, though it’s good oak and it sits well within the wine. It’s plush, yet stony and fine, concentration of fruit is outstanding, and the mouth-feel is wonderful. It’s super long. It has some gently earthy character, and that fine ‘mineral’ acidity closing it out is so nice. This is an absolute banger." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

96 points - "Sourced from the outstanding Cooinda Vale vineyard in Campania, Coal River Valley; 15% whole bunch, 11 months' maturation in French oak, 30% new. Bright ruby with aromas of red cherry, redcurrant and red plum cut with hints of fine spice, amaro, crushed rock, leaf litter, char siu, game meats, distant truffle and earth. The Pooley wines are so beautifully composed and calm. There is a real sense of grace on the palate, its travel long, true and balanced, its drinkability and elegance undisputed." - Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "Savory and precise aromas of wild raspberries, dark cherries, rose petals, violets and graphite. The palate is textural with fine tannins and bright acidity, giving notes of wild blackberries, dried herbs, wet earth, crushed strawberries and cassia bark. Wonderfully balanced and perfumed, with an earthy undertone. Excellent. Drink or hold. Screw cap." - JamesSuckling.com

The 2023 growing season started with budburst in September and continued with flowering in November. This year, we experienced a lot of wind and rain during flowering which makes for very challenging conditions. Between October and December 2022, there was 230mm of rainfall at both of our vineyard sites. It resulted in poor fruit set, and an overall reduction in yield for the season. Late December saw the rain disappear, leading away from the La Nina weather pattern and towards a drier, warmer El Nino period. It was a mild summer with no extremes of heat, whilst remaining warm. This is great for steady and slow development of flavour, acid, sugar, and tannin. All the elements that make for great quality wine.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Tasmania
Australian State TAS
Feature Women in Wine
High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Halliday Wine Companion
James Suckling
Critic Score 96
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure Screw Cap

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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