2022 Jack Denis Pooley Pinot Noir

3.60

6.20 g/l

Pressed to 50% new French oak barriques (Cavin / St. Martin) for 11 months.

Dry

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 fruit-set 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.

Cooinda Vale Vineyard was established in 1985 by Pooley’s founders, Margaret and Dennis Pooley. Sitting between 80-100m above sea level, the vineyard is tucked away in a nook of hills North of Campania making it much more protected from prevailing weather conditions. Being more continental it also experiences greater extremes in temperatures bringing more frequent frosts, snow and heat waves. The iron lacking grey brown sandy loam over clay subsoils at this site tend to bring a moderate level of struggle to the vines by restricting deep root growth and water accessibility but in turn creates a wine that is more delicate and finer.

Fruit was hand picked, 80% destemmed and 20% whole bunch. Wild fermentation on skins for 12 days then a 10 day post ferment maceration. Matured for 11 months in 50% new French oak barriques (Cavin and St Martin).

Brooding notes of cedar, violets, cherry and warming spice on the nose. Blackberries, wild mushroom and black cherries delight the palate with underlying notes of earth and savoury tobacco. There’s a measured restraint to this wine with a crushed velvet texture and pitch-perfect acidity.

2022 Jack Denis Pooley Pinot Noir Tech Sheet.pdf