Tolpuddle Vineyard Coal River Valley Pinot Noir 2025
£56.95
The wine
Intensely aromatic, with dark fruit characters and savoury spice on the nose.
Tolpuddle was planted in 1988 on a north-east facing slope in the Coal River Valley of southern Tasmania, and is now farmed by Shaw + Smith of the Adelaide Hills. Tasmania is the coolest wine region in Australia, closer in growing conditions to Burgundy than to the mainland, and the Coal River is among its driest and most continental corners: warm days, cold nights, very little rain.
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.
