Tolpuddle

Tolpuddle is a Mattinson Ten Star Winery.

Tolpuddle is one of Australia’s best wineries and is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Tolpuddle is of course one of Tasmania’s Best Wineries.

Keep it brief, keep it great. The Tolpuddle winery produces single vineyard chardonnay, and single vineyard pinot noir, from the Coal River Valley in southern Tasmania, and that’s all it does. It does both beautifully, and to exacting standards. Indeed it produces wine of such standard that its Pinot Noir is expected to soon become Australia’s Most Collected Pinot Noir. Given that 2012 was Tolpuddle’s first release, this has to be one of the fastest ever rises to the upper echelons of Australian wine in the history of Australian wine collecting. Tolpuddle will go from a non-existent brand to the top of the Australian Pinot Noir collecting tree in just fifteen or so years. Tolpuddle is no ordinary wine producer. It is an Australian wine legend in the making.

All 12 vintages of Tolpuddle Chardonnayhave been covered on The Winefront.
Ten vintages of Tolpuddle Pinot Noir have been covered on The Winefront.

Tolpuddle Pinot Noir will soon become Australia’s most collected Pinot Noir.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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