Tapanappa 2018 Eden Valley Riesling made for Tapanappa by Con Moshos, using the techniques honed at Petaluma as we worked together over the decades of the late 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
Con selected the Bartholomeus Vineyard for this wine based on his experience at Mount Adam through the 10 years from 2005. Eden Valley Riesling also closes the circle for me as the last time I harvested Riesling from this wonderful cool region was in 1975, when I made the legendary 1975 Siegersdorf Riesling for Thomas Hardy and Sons.
The wine reflects the austere granitic soil, cool climate terroir of Eden Valley and is floral and bone dry.
It’s a firm, fragrant, spice-riddled pinot noir with blueberry and macerated cherry notes shot through with aromatic herb notes.
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Hand-picked fruit, chilled in trays, whole-berry pressed, fermented in French oak barriques (one-third new). Matured in barrel on full lees.
This young chardonnay vineyard, just 13 years old, is starting to fully express itself. It’s a little racy in a chablis kind of way,
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Because of the small crop, 2019 Tiers 1.5M Chardonnay is exquisitely concentrated. Pale green/lemon in colour, the aroma is of white peach, canteloupe and the faint cinnamon and vanilla of Fench oak.
Typical of Tiers, the wine has a significant texture and is a riper and more advanced expression of the vineyard because of the earlier ripening Dijon clones..
Mellow and ripe the wine still has the finishing acid of the very cool climate Tiers Vineyard Again a light grape fruit bitterness lends a suitable end to the sweet fruit core of the wine.
2019 Tapanappa Tiers 1.5M Chardonnay is “a very age worthy expression of this unique Australian terroir”.
Pale lemon-green; smoky-toasty oak, apricot, orange blossom, white peach; pristine, bracing acidity, mid-weight, richly fruited,
» Read more about: Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay 2019 – Master Medal »
Quite delicate, but complex nose, hint of smoke, chalk, toast, and stone fruit. Palate has some creaminess,
» Read more about: Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2019 – Gold Medal »
2020 Tapanappa Eden Valley Riesling has a delicate green-gold hue. Typical of Eden Valley Riesling, the 2020 Tapanappa Riesling is very floral with some citrus blossom aromas. There is also the faint and delicate aroma of tea rose and a hint of jasmine. The floral bath-powder aromas are quintessential Riesling varietal character.
The palate weight is fine and delicate and despite the late picking almost austere, with a mouth-watering acid finish and lingering fruit sweet flavour.
Tapanappa 2020 Eden Valley Riesling is reflection of the Riesling variety grown in a perfectly suited terroir of a “distinguished site” vineyard.
2016 Tapanappa Tiers 1.5M Chardonnay ripened early and fully because of the very warm growing season and the unique early ripening effect of the Dijon Chardonnay clones on de-vigorating rootstocks on close spacing and close proximity to the warm ground at night.
Riper honey and fig characters complement the typical Tiers Vineyard peach flavour and aroma and significant texture. The Tiers 1.5M Chardonnay is softer and richer than the old Tiers Chardonnay from across the road. The wine finishes with a grapefruit and quince nuance again typical of The Tiers 1.5M Vineyard terroir expression.
2007 Tapanappa Tiers Chardonnay is a very typical wine of the Tiers Vineyard in a good vintage. The aromas are subtle varietal white peach and clove, with marzipan and brioche contributed by the malo-lactic, yeast lees contact and oak.
A consistent terroir feature of Tiers Chardonnay is the significant texture followed by a savoury finish and the persistence of the flavours. The 2007 Tapanappa Tiers Chardonnay will develop spicy honey and brulée characters with bottle age of up to 10 years.
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This parcel has performed so impressively in 2020, with trademark white-peach aromas and a subtle lemon-cream edge.
» Read more about: “Thrilling Chardonnay” – 2020 Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay »
This offers the same blend of lemon and white peach seen in the old-vine Tiers Chardonnay from this vintage,
» Read more about: “The intensity is impressive” – 2020 Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay »
Tapanappa 2010 Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is of medium colour intensity and is cerise in hue. The aroma of 2010 Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is of ripe fruit Pinot Noir without any hint of greener characters. Rich aromas of blackberry conserve with hints of rose and anise provide the fruit core with added complexity of earth and coffee. Despite its ripeness, 2010 Foggy Hill Pinot Noir retains the ethereal qualities attributable to the cool maritime terroir.
2013 Tapanappa Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is the product of a warmer than average vintage from the very cool Foggy Hill Parawa site.
2013 vintage is proof of the adage that the best wines come from the coolest sites in the warmest years.
The colour is dense by Pinot Noir standards reflecting the sunny vintage effect on berry pigmentation and the effect of plucking the leaves from around the bunches before veraison.
On September 30 I retire by decree, as a director of Wine Australia after an eventful seven years including three quite different iterations of the board and two chairpersons,
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Vintage Notes
2017 was one of the latest vintages on record despite being warm at 1585C days versus the average of 1487C days.
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Vintage Notes
2017 was one of the latest vintages on record despite being warm at 1585C days versus the average of 1487C days.
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Vintage Notes
A cool start to the Autumn, slowed an even budburst in the Piccadilly Valley in early September.
» Read more about: Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley 2020 Chardonnay »
Vintage Notes
A cool start to the Autumn, slowed an even budburst in the Tiers Vineyard in early September.
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Vintage Notes
A cool start to the Autumn, slowed an even budburst in the Tiers Vineyard in early September.
» Read more about: Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5m 2020 Chardonnay »
Tiers Vineyard replanted in 2003 to clones 76 and 95 at 1.5m row spacing. Close planting produces earlier ripening and fuller flavours,
» Read more about: Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay 2019 – 92 points Silver »
450m elevation; planted 1979, the first vineyard in the modern Adelaide Hills. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of its planting,
» Read more about: Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2019 – 93 points Silver »
Characterful and energetic, this is probably the most distinctive pinot that Brian Croser has drawn from his Foggy Hill Vineyard yet.
» Read more about: Definitus Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2019 – 94 points Silver »
Signature Wrattonbully, from menthol-tinted aromatics and cassis-defined palate to fine-grained, powdery, chalk-dusted tannins. A cool season heightens tang,
» Read more about: Whalebone Vineyard Merlot Cabernet Franc 2017 – 94 points Silver »
A cooler season works its magic, lifting the violet perfume of cabernet, the black pepper of shiraz,
» Read more about: Whalebone Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz 2017 – 95 points Gold »
15% of the fruit was placed at the bottom of the fermenting tubs, progressively crushed.
» Read more about: Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2019 – 96 points Gold “Top Rated” »
Light yellow colour. The nose is reductive, smoky matchstick, a kiss of oak too, in balance. Small flowers,
» Read more about: 2020 Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay »
If you cast your mind back to the very beginning of Covid last year you might think the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse got a head start when fires ravaged many vineyards in the Eastern States.
Describing himself humbly as a ‘single vineyard vigneron’, others in the wine trade might call Tapanappa’s Brian Croser ‘a vine and wine visionary’ or ‘innovator’.
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SALA Exhibition 2021
Patterns in the Landscape
An exhibition in response to the elements, forms,
The Whalebone Vineyard
Planted to the Cabernet varieties in Wrattonbully in 1974,
Foggy Hill Vineyard
Planted with Pinot Noir on the Fleurieu Peninsula in 2003,
The Tiers Vineyard
Planted with Chardonnay in the Piccadilly Valley in 1979,
Brian’s Musings
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The Tiers Vineyard Old Block in the Piccadilly Valley is 41 years old, planted in 1980.
Pinot Noir doesn’t need to taste like Burgundy to be good. This Tapanappa Definitus Pinot Noir 2018 is the example of this.
» Read more about: 2018 Tapanappa Foggy Hill Vineyard DEFINITUS Pinot Noir »
If you’ve got elite fruit power, don’t be afraid to show it. This has an Olympic athlete’s body: big frame,
» Read more about: 2018 Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay – 97 points »
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Current 3 Sites Cellar club pack includes:
2 x 2020 Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay
2 x 2019 Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir
2 x 2006 Whalebone Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz
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Current 3 Sites club pack includes:
1 x 2020 Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay
1 x 2019 Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir
1 x 2006 Whalebone Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz
The Piccadilly Valley has a proud history of crafting great Australian Chardonnay, and was the original home of Petaluma.
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Brian Croser’s vision of a great Right Bank Bordeaux, realised. Or at least that’s the drift with this Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard Merlot Cabernet Franc 2017. Sometimes this Wrattonbully red can seem too ripe and too ambitious,
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Recognition
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I haven’t read the press notes on this wine but 2020 in the Adelaide Hills was an interesting time,
» Read more about: “This makes an impression” 2020 Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay »
The chardonnay vines on the Tiers Vineyard in the Piccadilly Valley are all now well over 30 years old though some were planted in the late 1970s.
» Read more about: “It had me hooked straight up” 2020 The Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay »
Brian Croser’s vision of a great Right Bank Bordeaux, realised. Or at least that’s the drift with this Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard Merlot Cabernet Franc 2017. Sometimes this Wrattonbully red can seem too ripe and too ambitious,
» Read more about: 2017 Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard Merlot Cabernet Franc »
Bright ripe-peach and lemon aromas on offer here, framed in some spiced, hazelnut-like oak and nougat.
» Read more about: 2020 Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay »
Tough vintage, to say the least, and yet out if it you get something as beautiful as this classy chardonnay from the Piccadilly Valley.
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A beautiful piece of wine machinery. Precision is everything here. That, and purity. Nectarine, lemon curd,
» Read more about: 2020 Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5M chardonnay »
This vineyard was close planted along French lines with French clones and it really does have an impact on the wine.
» Read more about: 2020 Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5M chardonnay »
It’s a firm, fragrant, spice-riddled pinot noir with blueberry and macerated cherry notes shot through with aromatic herb notes.
» Read more about: “A pretty impressive wine” – 2019 Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir »
There are four hectares of pinot noir growing on the Foggy Hill vineyard; this is from a one-hectare strip.
» Read more about: 2018 Foggy Hill Vineyard “DEFINITUS” Pinot Noir »
Lots going on here. Huge perfume of ripe plum, sage, violets, pot pourri, cedar. The palate is plush,
» Read more about: “A lavish wine” – 2017 Whalebone Vineyard Merlot Cabernet Franc »
Seaspray, seaweed scents, a dusting of clove, cassis, some eucalyptus too. Evocative perfume. Dark fruit flavours,
» Read more about: “Wrattonbully the hero here”- 2017 Whalebone Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz »
Sour cherry and dark fruit profile, touch more of the savoury – almost hedgerow, stem like –
Brian Croser’s Fleurieu Peninsula Pinot has evolved quite a bit over its existence, the style reaching for more delicacy every vintage.
» Read more about: “Classy Wine” – 2019 Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir »
Somewhat puckered peach—skin, flesh, kernel—and a sniff off that often elusive match-strike that many a Chardonnay-lover desires.
» Read more about: 2018 Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay »
Tapanappa founder/winemaker, Brian Croser, calls the 2020 vintage “unique.” Despite COVID, bushfires and a severe frost in his beloved Tiers Vineyard in the Adelaide Hills,
» Read more about: 2020 Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay »
This wine hails from the celebrated Tiers Vineyard, but there are subtle differences at play which imbues it with a different personality to the Tiers flagship wine.
» Read more about: 2020 Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5M chardonnay »
If chardonnay is indeed making a comeback, it’s through wines like these where much of the excitement dwells.
» Read more about: 2020 Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay »
“It’s young and will be even better next year” – 2020 Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay
Light yellow colour.
“Potential Plus” – 2020 Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay
Light straw colour. Cashew nut,
Brian Croser reports on the 2021 vintage, which he describes as ‘perfection in a sea of uncertainty’.
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