Pooley

Pooley is a Mattinson Ten Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best are ranked as a Mattinson Ten Star Winery.

Anna Pooley has been a star of Australian winemaking since, effectively, she started working at Treasury Wine Estates just over twenty years ago. What she has achieved however at her family estate in the Coal River Valley of Tasmania since 2013 has added many extra layers of lustre. Anna Pooley, and her partner Justin Bubb, the Pooley family at large and the estate they farm are now firmly established as rolled gold gems of Australian wine. Never was an award more apt than when the Pooley winery was named the Halliday Wine Companion Winery of the Year in 2023. There’s both a force and an inherent quietness to the wines of Pooley. Across Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in particular, the wines are stoic, regal, upstanding and true. These wines age, and impress, and hold firm in equal measure. In Pooley, you can trust. This trust has built steadily since the establishment of the estate in 1985 but the 2023 and 2024 releases – born of Anna’s now extensive experience – are prime evidence of an Australian wine estate in full flight.

Pooley’s wine reputation is built around two outstanding vineyards: Cooinda Vale (just north of Campania, established in 1985), and Butcher’s Hill (at Richmond, established in 2003). Both these vineyards are run sustainably, using biological farming techniques.