Another million dollar investment in Tasmania's wine industry
The ribbon is being cut today (11th November) on Tasmania's newest winery.
Pooley Wines have just completed a million dollar extension to their winery at Cambridge near Hobart.
The third generation family owned wine company grows grapes at Richmond and Campania and aims their cool climate wine at the premium market.
Designed to process a maximum of 250 tonnes per vintage, the new winery is 'closed loop' with all water and winery waste being captured and recycled back to the vineyard.
It has solar panels and future plans for wind power.
"The reason we have a variety of tanks ranging from 10,000 litres down to 1,000 litres, is that we actually do all of our processing in small batches" John Pooley said.
"We pick by clone, we pick by block of grapes in the vineyard and we process those blocks and clones individually.
John Pooley in front of new vats in the expanded Cambridge winery.
This way when we come to do our blending of a particular variety say pinot noir, we've got a fantastic choice of being able to blend with all of those different characters of each of the clones."
This is where we see our single vineyard and single block wines going to that new level of quality."
Source: ABC News, 11 November 2013
