Pinot with presence—Butcher’s Hill delivers a grounded, perfumed, age-worthy expression of Tasmania’s Coal River Valley.
The 2024 Pooley Butcher’s Hill Pinot Noir is structured, savoury and distinctly shaped by its rugged, north-facing slope above Richmond. Anna Pooley’s deft hand and a superb growing season produced a wine that balances dark-fruited depth with lifted spice and herbal complexity. This is not a fleeting, pretty Pinot—it’s layered and firm, made for the cellar.
Handpicked fruit, 25% whole bunch inclusion, and time on skins post-ferment give this wine its backbone. Ten months in fine-grain French oak (35% new) adds detail rather than dominance. The wine opens with ripe dark cherry, cocoa, and lavender, followed by green peppercorn, citrus peel and cardamom. Tannins are velvety, acidity firm—everything is in place for a long, expressive evolution.
Decant it now for complexity, or cellar confidently for a decade or more to see it tighten and unfurl in all the right ways.
Pinot with presence—Butcher’s Hill delivers a grounded, perfumed, age-worthy expression of Tasmania’s Coal River Valley.
The 2024 Pooley Butcher’s Hill Pinot Noir is structured, savoury and distinctly shaped by its rugged, north-facing slope above Richmond. Anna Pooley’s deft hand and a superb growing season produced a wine that balances dark-fruited depth with lifted spice and herbal complexity. This is not a fleeting, pretty Pinot—it’s layered and firm, made for the cellar.
Handpicked fruit, 25% whole bunch inclusion, and time on skins post-ferment give this wine its backbone. Ten months in fine-grain French oak (35% new) adds detail rather than dominance. The wine opens with ripe dark cherry, cocoa, and lavender, followed by green peppercorn, citrus peel and cardamom. Tannins are velvety, acidity firm—everything is in place for a long, expressive evolution.
Decant it now for complexity, or cellar confidently for a decade or more to see it tighten and unfurl in all the right ways.