Welcome to Pooley Wines
Our Cellar Door is open daily from 10am – 5pm. Enjoy a gourmet platter of local cheeses and charcuterie with your favourite Pooley wine.
Our popular weekend Pizza’s @ Pooley are available Saturday and Sunday from 12pm – 3pm.
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL 6260 2895
Wine purchases now available online or learn more about our Wine Club
Staying in Richmond? Contact our sister property Prospect House Private Hotel (across the road from Cellar Door)
3 Generations
Established in 1985, Pooley Wines is Tasmania’s first and only third generation family wine business.
2 Vineyards
Two unique sites in the Coal River Valley, Southern Tasmania. We champion Riesling, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir
1 Vision
Environmentally accredited. Sustainable viticulture. Perfection is our passion.
Pooley Wines is a five star rated multi award winning Tasmanian family winery located in the heart of the Tasmania’s famous wine producing region, the Coal River Valley.
The historical property and two separate vineyards in the Coal River Valley have built a reputation for the production their quality of cool-climate wines such as world class Riesling, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. These award winning wines are available by mail order through this web site, from selected suppliers and exclusive restaurants or through our cellar door at the historic Butchers Hill Vineyard in Richmond, which currently hosts the:
Gourmet Traveller WINE Magazine Award –
“Best Small Cellar Door”
Southern Tasmania 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2018.
&
“Best Wine Tasting Experience”
Southern Tasmania 2016.
Members of the Pooley family have been actively involved in the business for three generations with their longstanding passion and commitment to fine wine being your assurance of uncompromising quality. It is this enthusiasm and love towards wine making that has created their mantra ‘Perfection is our passion” – a mantra that is shared and practiced by all staff across the business today. They are proud to be recognised for their environmental approach to wine making by becoming the first and only fully credited environmentally sustainable vineyards in Tasmania.
2020 #13 Top Australian Winery – The Real Review
2012 Vineyard of the Year &
2012 Pinot Noir Producer of the Year
Pooley Wines is also proud to have received the prestigious 2012 Tasmanian Vineyard of the Year Award, given annually by the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania in association with Wine Tasmania and the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture. This was in recognition of the winery’s outstanding performance in production of quality wines, as Pooley Wines amassed a total of 18 Gold Medals and 2 Trophies at the highly acclaimed Tasmanian Wine show in 2012.
CERTIFIED ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE
Recognised for our modern and environmental approach to leading viticulture practices by ENTWINE Australia (national wine industry’s environmental assurance scheme), Pooley Wines has achieved status as
Tasmania’s first and only fully accredited Environmentally Certified Sustainable Vineyard.
Along with constant care to minimise the impact of certain farming practices across our vineyards, the Pooley Wines viticultural philosophy is simple – ‘From ground to grape and grape to glass, and at the heart of all we do, our actions must never lose focus on providing the most environmentally sustainable approach to viticulture, so that the generations of tomorrow may benefit from the skills and experience of what we have learnt today.’ Matt Pooley – Nuffield Scholar 2013 (GWRDC & AGWA).
July means pruning time, which is all about setting up structure for the coming season, and the true start of what will end up in a Pooley bottle. We asked our Vineyard Manager Hannah to share what's been going on at Pooley Wines;
"The recent rain here in the Coal River Valley was much needed after a record dry season and has set us up nicely for the spring. Thankfully we hadn't started to prune when the rain set in, our timing was good in that regard. Now my job is to allow the vines to go into dormancy relaxed with their bellies full so to speak.
I'm a sympathetic pruner and will be treating each vine with individual intent and pruned in accordance to what it can support. That way we can continue to improve our yield and fruit quality while taking into account vine capacity for both vegetative and reproductive growth."
We love chatting to Hannah and will be checking in over the winter months to check in on those full bellies!
The sun is shining, the pizza oven is red hot and the wine is flowing. Join us in the Richmond sunshine, now the rain has finally given us a break!
A gentle reminder that bookings are essential to ensure the health and wellbeing of our patrons. Call us on 6260 2895
Photo credit Our Coal Valley
As we re-emerge from restrictions, it has been humbling to receive recent accolades from The Real Review and more recently Gourmet Traveller WINE. Gourmet's complimentary website Winecraft shares the best cellar doors and wineries to visit. It's wonderful to see Pooley feature there too.
The sun is finally shining again over Richmond so join us for a tasting or a pizza this weekend.
winecraft.com/australia/tasmania/southern-tasmania/winery/pooley-wines
Excitement is brimming from one side of Richmond Road to the other. Our sister property Prospect House Private Hotel will be reopening in a few short weeks and have a tantalising offer to welcome you back. And while you wait, join us from 12 today for a tasting of our newly released Pooley Pinots and JRD Syrah 🍷To celebrate our grand re-re opening Prospect House Dining Room is putting together a 4 course menu featuring the very best (and most popular) dishes from our recent delivered-dining menu.
The only catch is this time you have to come to us!
The menu will include four courses and amuse bouche for $90pp. Matched wines is also an option at $60pp. For all guests that book we will include a glass of Tasmanian sparkling on arrival with compliments.
Bookings are for Friday the 3rd of July or Saturday the 4th of July. Space is limited to just 22 guests on each evening.
To book today email reservations@prospecthouseprivatehotel.com.au and leave your name, requested number of guests, preferred booking time (between 6pm and 7.30pm) and dietary requirements.
Accommodation also available for those that like the idea of walking back to bed at the end of the evening, and a hot cooked breakfast the following morning :).
We look forward to seeing you again in July.