Tolpuddle Vineyard Coal River Valley Chardonnay 2023

Tolpuddle Vineyard Coal River Valley Chardonnay

Region: Tasmania, Australia

Vintage: 2023

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Chardonnay

ABV: 13.5%

On the nose this wine has great purity with notes of lemon peel, grapefruit, and white jasmine. On the palate, there is an impressive persistence of flavour, excellent balance, fresh zingy acidity and a distinct crystalline character.

Described by Decanter as “arguably Tasmania's most valued and important site”, Tolpuddle Vineyard was purchased by Martin Shaw and Michael Hill Smith MW in 2011, after an eventful road trip on the island. During the trip, they asked famed local winemaker Peter Dredge to organise a tasting of Tasmania’s best wines and quickly discovered their favourites came from the Tolpuddle Vineyard. Before their trip was through, the duo became the proud owners of a vineyard that would continue to define fine Tasmanian winemaking.

Based in the Coal River Valley, Tolpuddle Vineyard was planted in 1988 by industry legends Tony Jordan and Garry Crittenden. The vineyard takes its name from the Tolpuddle Martyrs, who were exiled to Australia in 1834 for starting an agrarian union in Tolpuddle in Dorset. The group leader, George Loveless, served some of his sentence working on a property near Richmond called GlenAyr, part of which is now the Tolpuddle Vineyard.

https://www.tolpuddlevineyard.com