Pooley Wines is a family-owned Coal River Valley producer in southern Tasmania, established in 1985 when the family planted their first rows of Riesling and Pinot Noir. This estate Riesling blends fruit from the Cooinda Vale and Butcher's Hill vineyards with select Coal River parcels. The valley's cool, dry, sunny climate and sandstone- and dolerite-influenced soils suit Riesling, producing fruit of intense citrus and mineral character with bright acidity. In the 2024 vintage the fruit was handpicked and cooled overnight to around five degrees to preserve aromatics and freshness ahead of pressing.

The chilled bunches were whole-bunch pressed and the juice cold-settled before a slow, cool fermentation in stainless steel to retain delicate aromatics. Made in a dry style with no oak and no malolactic, the wine keeps fine, chewy phenolic texture from careful handling of the pressings. It was bottled young under screwcap to preserve its taut, energetic line, spiced-nectarine and lime-zest fruit and crushed-rock minerality - an extraordinarily youthful Riesling praised for its seamless flow.