Tolpuddle's low-profile new release

Here's a semi-secret wine that you won't find on restaurant wine lists or in your local bottle shop. 

Tolpuddle, the hugely successful Tasmanian vineyard that produces world-class chardonnays and pinots, has a new release. 

Co-owner Martin Shaw snuck me a bottle of the new 2024 Loveless Pinot Noir to try. And while it is not under the Tolpuddle label, it is a very impressive Tassie pinot. 

The Tolpuddle team explains: "Since taking over Tolpuddle Vineyard in 2011, we have made a number of improvements, including new plantings. 

"The young vines, of great potential but not yet ready to make it into the Tolpuddle Vineyard Pinot Noir, were blended with fruit from an excellent site in the Derwent Valley. The result is a bright, fresh, delicious Tasmanian pinot noir.

"The wine is named for George Loveless, leader of the Tolpuddle Martyrs; English convicts transported to Tasmania for forming an agricultural union. 

"Loveless served some of his sentence working on a property near Richmond, part of which is now Tolpuddle Vineyard.

So now you know.. The wine is only available in six packs for $300 from the Tolpuddle cellar door in the Coal River Valley, or online.

It's a dark wine, not quite as nuanced as Tolpuddle, but with an interesting flavour palette, well integrated oaks and soft tannins. It finishes long and smooth. 

https://www.tolpuddlevineyard.com/store/loveless-pinot-noir-6-pack