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 at Pooley are on Friday – Sunday from 12-3.
Gluten free options are available to be pre-booked only.
BOOKINGS RECOMMENDED
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).