Pooley Cooinda Vale Pinot Noir 2022

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. The Cooinda Vale vineyard is ideally positioned facing northeast overlooking the Coal River in southern Tasmania. On the 43.5 Latitude line, the vineyard is planted on northeast facing slopes at 130m above sea level. This is a unique microclimatic location, being well protected from prevailing winds but still highly influenced by maritime conditions. The long growing season, which can extend into May, with high sunshine hours, predominately winter rainfall and the occasional frost and snow, combine to provide an excellent condition for cool climate grape varieties, such as Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Chardonnay. The lead-up to 2022 vintage included one of the wettest winters on record, a cool drying spring into summer with high humidity. All these factors led to healthy canopies and bunch numbers. The cool conditions, especially around the time of flowering resulted in some poor fruitset in earlier flowering varieties. This delivered a combination of small and large size berries to form reducing the overall yields and intake in those varieties. The vintage started a couple of days later than usual, but with the high humidity/lowered diurnal range, our late ripening varieties were picked slightly earlier than usual. Overall, a quality vintage. Pooley Cooinda Vale Pinot Noir 2022 has a wondrous display of fragrance with stewed fruits, liquorice and charred wood and subtle spice characters. The palate offers great intensity with red currants, sour raspberry and white pepper. The oak and tannin integrate seamlessly into a silky finish. Another stunning release from the Cooinda Vale vineyard, near Campania, for Pooley Wines; 10% whole bunches and matured in French oak (30% new) for 10 months. It’s a captivating wine. Blood orange, dark and red cherry with wild strawberry top notes. The spice tones are exotic and gentle amaro herbs waft in and out of the drinker’s line of sight. Hints of wildflowers, game, sous bois, Chinese five-spice, dried citrus rind and earth. Elegant and spacious in the mouth, pillowy fine tannins settling on the fruit, acidity sapid and lending a subtle umami facet as the wine slowly unwinds. It’s nuanced, graceful and enthralling. Drink 2023-2038.’- Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion, 98 Points. The Finer Details Style – Red Wine Varietal – Pinot Noir Country – Australia Region – Coal River Valley, Tasmania Vintage – 2022 Bottle Size – 750ml ABV – 13.1%