Tolpuddle Vineyard Coal River Valley Chardonnay 2025
£56.95
The wine
One of Australia’s finest cool-climate Chardonnays, from a single vineyard in Tasmania’s Coal River Valley. Tolpuddle’s Chardonnay is all about purity: in recent vintages lemon peel, grapefruit and white jasmine on the nose, then real persistence, zingy acidity and a distinctly crystalline finish.
The 20-hectare vineyard was planted in 1988 and bought in 2011 by Martin Shaw and Michael Hill Smith MW of Shaw + Smith. It sits on a gentle north-east slope in a rain shadow, cool and dry, on light silica over sandstone. Hand-picked fruit is whole-bunch pressed and fermented in French oak barriques, a third new, then aged nine months in barrel and a further four on lees in tank.
The producer
Tolpuddle Vineyard
View all Tolpuddle Vineyard winesTolpuddle Vineyard is one of Tasmania's most celebrated sites, a single vineyard in the cool Coal River Valley planted in 1988. Now in the hands of the Hill-Smith family behind Shaw + Smith, it has become a byword for cool-climate excellence.
The philosophy is single-minded, to express one remarkable vineyard through Chardonnay and Pinot Noir alone. Meticulous farming and a restrained cellar hand let the site's cool clarity shine.
The Coal River Valley Pinot Noir is a wine of perfume, silk and fine detail, delicate yet persistent, the kind of Pinot that rewards a great cellar and a special table.
Pure, precise and highly sought after, Tolpuddle is Tasmania at its finest. Discover one of Australia's great cool-climate vineyards.
