Region: Tasmania
Sub Region: Coal River Valley
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2024
The Wine
Pooley was established in 1985, and Cooinda Vale is the family’s original vineyard site at Campania in the Coal River Valley. The vineyard was first planted in 1985 and today spans 18 hectares on a sheltered north-east-facing site of sandy loams and sandy clay loam over impervious clay. For the 2024 Cooinda Vale Pinot Noir, Pooley draws on fruit from this single vineyard, with plantings including clones 115, Pommard, Abel and 2051.
The 2024 season arrived early after a warm winter, with steady, lower rainfall and very clean fruit through the growing season. Harvest ran from 17 March to 4 April. The wine was made from hand-picked fruit, fermented on skins in open fermenters with daily pump-overs, then matured in French oak barriques and puncheons before bottling in February 2025. Technical details listed by Pooley include 13.5% alcohol, pH 3.65, TA 6.2 g/L and production of 8,448 bottles.
Cellared Says
This is exactly the kind of Tassie Pinot that is hard to resist: finely detailed, site-driven and already very seductive to drink, but with enough structure and shape to reward time in the cellar. A very smart bottle for those who like Pinot with real perfume, savoury nuance and structured length.
Reviews
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.
96 points – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Quite dark, vibrant and deep in the glass. Lifted and heady aromas of blueberry, dried herbs, sap, spice, dark cherry, clovey oak and white pepper. The palate is full-flavoured and fleshy, with lashings of blue and red fruits, along with spice, bramble and a woodsy lift. A bigger framed pinot noir that is built for the long haul, but also drinks very nicely now.
95 Points - Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
Region: Tasmania
Sub Region: Coal River Valley
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2024
The Wine
Pooley was established in 1985, and Cooinda Vale is the family’s original vineyard site at Campania in the Coal River Valley. The vineyard was first planted in 1985 and today spans 18 hectares on a sheltered north-east-facing site of sandy loams and sandy clay loam over impervious clay. For the 2024 Cooinda Vale Pinot Noir, Pooley draws on fruit from this single vineyard, with plantings including clones 115, Pommard, Abel and 2051.
The 2024 season arrived early after a warm winter, with steady, lower rainfall and very clean fruit through the growing season. Harvest ran from 17 March to 4 April. The wine was made from hand-picked fruit, fermented on skins in open fermenters with daily pump-overs, then matured in French oak barriques and puncheons before bottling in February 2025. Technical details listed by Pooley include 13.5% alcohol, pH 3.65, TA 6.2 g/L and production of 8,448 bottles.
Cellared Says
This is exactly the kind of Tassie Pinot that is hard to resist: finely detailed, site-driven and already very seductive to drink, but with enough structure and shape to reward time in the cellar. A very smart bottle for those who like Pinot with real perfume, savoury nuance and structured length.
Reviews
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.
96 points – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Quite dark, vibrant and deep in the glass. Lifted and heady aromas of blueberry, dried herbs, sap, spice, dark cherry, clovey oak and white pepper. The palate is full-flavoured and fleshy, with lashings of blue and red fruits, along with spice, bramble and a woodsy lift. A bigger framed pinot noir that is built for the long haul, but also drinks very nicely now.
95 Points - Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
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