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‘A lot of pain’: The hangover looming from Australia’s budget-wine boom

Author: Luke Slattery
Source: THE AGE
Date: Nov 2024

‘A lot of pain’: The hangover looming from Australia’s budget-wine boom
Grapes rotting on vines; billions of bottles’ worth of wine sitting in tank farms:
many inland wine producers are facing an unpalatable truth.

By Luke Slattery • November 09,

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The role of the vineyard in Australian fine wine

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Source: World of Fine Wine
Date: Oct 2024

Brian Croser: Australia went through a huge expansion through the 1990s to 2005. A lot of that expansion occurred in the inland, highly irrigated areas, with fruit that was destined for the grocery
stores as branded commodity wine—your Jacob’s Creek …

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History in a bottle – Whale of a time

Author: Tony Love
Source: SA Life
Date: Jun 2024

South Australia’s wine story includes many well-worn tales of adventures into the unknown, maddening enterprise and celebrated family sagas. But then there are the more secret histories, which live on today in wines that reflect their colourful stories. Here, we …

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Tapanappa 2024 Vintage Report

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Source:
Date: May 2024

After 55 vintages in Australia, you might surmise I have seen it all. Hot years, cold years, wet years, drought years, big crops, small crops, no crop. In 1983, the “Ash Wednesday” fire year, the fire was followed by a …

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South Australia 2024 – a view from the Adelaide Hills

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Source: www.jancisrobinson.com
Date: Apr 2024

Brian Croser sends a first-hand report from Tapanappa in the Piccadilly Valley on a small but promising harvest. Above, Croser scrutinizes the Chardonnay grapes in the Tiers Vineyard.

We all know what comes in small packages, but can they be …

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World-renowned AWRI being bled dry

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Source: Wine Business Magazine
Date: Feb 2024

RESPECTED AUSTRALIAN WINEMAKERS BRIAN CROSER AND LOUISA ROSE SHARE THEIR VIEWS ON THE WORLD-RENOWNED AUSTRALIAN WINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE BEING BLED DRY BECAUSE OF EVER-DECREASING FUNDING.

The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) is 70 years old next year.

One of us …

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THE FUTURE IS ‘FINE’

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Source: WBM – Australia’s Wine Business Magazine
Date: Jan 2024

by Brian Croser

The Australian wine industry has squandered three decades being confused about the differences between premium and non-premium wine and where the opportunities really lie. Brian Croser reports. 

Imagine the world without America and China. I don’t mean …

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Foggy Hill with The Vintage Journal

Author: Andrew Caillard MW
Source: The Vintage Journal
Date: Oct 2023

Brian Croser’s Foggy Hill Vineyard in the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of McLaren Vale is one of South Australia’s most isolated vineyards. At its highest point at Parawa, it is possible to look over towards Encounter Bay where Matthew Flinders on …

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Must-visit Adelaide Hills cellar doors

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Source: winecompanion.com.au
Date: Jul 2023

The Adelaide Hills is home to more than 50 cellar doors and over 90 wine labels. Less than half an hour from the CBD, the region is the ultimate weekend escape or long lunch destination. Take a cellar door tour …

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Croser to showcase cool-climate credentials of the Adelaide Hills

Author: Margaret Rand
Source: Wine Searcher
Date: Jul 2023

The wine industry in Australia can be a parochial business, so kudos to an event in Victoria that is to put a spotlight on the wines of the Adelaide Hills.

For the first time, the International Cool Climate Wine Show …

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Legendary Australian winemaker Brian Croser explains his Chardonnay through a Riesling lens

Author: Margaret Rand
Source: Wine Searcher
Date: Jul 2023

© Tapanappa | Brian Croser is one of South Australia’s most respected winemakers

What would Brian Croser say to his younger self? “Be patient, and trust the vineyard. The mistakes I’ve made in winemaking, which are legion, are because I’ve …

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Croser & Bizot: a family vision in Wrattonbully

Author: Sarah Ahmed
Source: Decanter
Date: Feb 2023

Wrattonbully, in South Australia’s Limestone Coast region, is home to two powerhouse wine families from opposite sides of the world now entwined by marriage. Sarah Ahmed chats with Australian wine legend Brian Croser and his son-in-law Xavier Bizot of the
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Tapanappa with The Vintage Journal

Author: Andrew Caillard MW
Source: The Vintage Journal
Date: Dec 2022

What these wines unequivocally showed is that the Croser vision for grand Australian wines has come to reality.
Image by Milton Wordley

The sharp-minded, deliberate and controversial Brian Croser has been a forceful and polarising advocate of Australia’s fine wine …

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Tapanappa Unveils Latest Chardonnay Vintage

Author: Anne Krebiehl MW
Source: Falstaff
Date: Feb 2022

As a pioneer of Australian cool-climate viticulture, Brian Croser was the first to plant Chardonnay in the Adelaide Hills – now his latest vintage is out.

Few people can claim pioneer status in the 21st century but Brian Croser …

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