Vintage year for Pooleys

Coal River Valley producer Pooley Wines has been voted Tassie’s top vineyard. The winery has won the 2012 Tasmanian Vineyard of the Year Award, adding to a host of honours its wines have won. Pooley Wines has two vineyards Cooinda Vale Estate at Campania, and Belmont Vineyard at Richmond, growing a total of 12ha of vines. It won the award given annually by the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania in association with Wine Tasmania and the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, reports The Mercury.