Tolpuddle Vineyard

Tolpuddle Vineyard is a leading cool-climate estate in Tasmania’s Coal River Valley, about 20 minutes from Hobart near the village of Richmond. First planted in 1988 and named after the Tolpuddle Martyrs—English farm labourers transported to Tasmania in the 1830s—the vineyard quickly gained a reputation for quality, winning the inaugural Tasmanian Vineyard of the Year award in 2006. Its modern era began in 2011, when Michael Hill-Smith MW and Martin Shaw (founders of Shaw + Smith in the Adelaide Hills) purchased th…