Recognition

Nice depth to the colour. instantly smoky, peaty, charry nose. Cloves and rosemary wrestle with graphite and a charming tease of mulberry fruit. Tannins are chalky. This needs time
90 Points

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A rather delightful pinot with simply wonderful, bright raspberries and brambleberries, as well as fresh-pastry notes. The palate has a fresh, light and lithe feel with gently peppery nuances and firm, long, fruit-soaked tannins. Drink or hold. 

93 points

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Does nothing to supress my urge to visit this site. Looking very good this 2017 vintage, even if it warmer than average – not always great for the variety at hand – but the seasonal warmth only tells one aspect, for the preceding winter was gloriously wet, given the dormant vines a good drink. And in return how they reward us.

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2017 was a warmer than average year at Foggy Hill but the wine wasn’t harvested until late March, early April. This is arguably the best Foggy Hill Pinot Noir I’ve seen. It’s fragrant, it’s pretty, it’s well formed and then it’s lengthy through the finish. It sets up its case meticulously and then prosecutes it both firmly and convincingly.

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A cooler vintage that shows a wealth of brambly forest characters, spiced charcuterie,clean and bright violet-like dried flowers and graphite. The palate is very plush with some deeper nuances and mushroom, too. Refined, fresh, lively and supple brambly cherries as well. A very elegant palate with supple tannins, nicely matched sweet fruit and savoriness. Drinking well. 

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A slightly warmer than average vintage. The nose has a bright and fresher floral edge with fresh violets. There is also an edge of brambly forest floor. The palate has a very plush and long, dark cherries. The fine tannins that are more pronounced, blossoming at the finish. A long, plush and supple finish with dark cherries and just hints of plums and fresh leather.

 » Read more about: 2012 Tapanappa Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir  »

A very complex array of dried flowers such as roses and violets. Subtly savory dark cherries and earthy fruits, as well as some graphite, coal smoke and savory, dark and stony nuances. The palate is very nicely wrapped in spicy layered tannins. There is also a core of bright tangy fruit, darker cherries and a wealth of deep-set riper fruits,

 » Read more about: 2016 Tapanappa Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir  »

Has the emerging signature of coal smoky savoriness (30% whole bunches) and dried flowers here. Violets and roses with a cooler on average vintage. Mulberries and red cherries with an impressive depth. The palate has the expressive, lively finish, and the tannins are groomed and linear, working in tandem. Nuanced, plush and even-paced. The best to date.

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I like the floral violets and roses with charcoal and a sweet array of silky, plush and very even-paced fruit. Ripe red cherries and boysenberries, and plush, ribbon-like tannins. Things are more groomed, fluid and succinct with composed and elegantly powerful fruit at just 14 years of age. This is a very smooth, supple, dense yet light pinot with red berries.

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Serious pinot noir from industry veteran Brian Croser and his team at Tapanappa. The Definitus is made in tiny quantities from fruit grown on a one-hectare strip of the Foggy Hill vineyard on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of Adelaide. It is a solid pinot with oak and herbal notes allied to some dark cherry fruit notes.

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Out to impress
93/100
It’s a tight and firmish wine with slightly grippy, chalky tannins. Notes of spice and sour cherry.

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This has a lovely red-cherry and cherry-liqueur like bouquet laced with spices and some subtle foresty characters – possibly whole-bunch derived. It’s showing considerable complexity already. The wine is full in the mouth and quite firm, with abundant youthful tannins. It’s just a baby and needs more time to soften and mellow out. An excellent pinot.

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Love this vineyard’s wines and here is another great reason for you to get on board with them. A deeper coloured pinot reflecting more powerful red fruit flavours than you will discover in many pinots.
Rating 95/100

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The beguilingly perfumed nose, suggestive of dark cherry and dried herbs, is captivating, and shows a whiff of oak. This supple, intense wine is a pleasure to drink, although the fine tannins provide the framework for cellaring. ★★★★☆

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A dense and solid pinot with lots of flesh yet toned and muscular with ripe tannins. Lots of ripe fruit, leather and hints of new wood. Flavorful and long. More full-throttle style. Very sexy. Screw cap. 

93 points

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Brian Croser’s Foggy Hill vineyard is on one of the coldest and wettest sites in the state, chosen to nurture a pinot that clearly revels in the climate there. This is exciting, high-toned wine with vibrant varietal aromatics of crushed black cherry fruit, and wooded and bush herbals adding a forest-like background to a sweetly spotted mouthful of pure fruit joys.

 » Read more about: “delicious, drinkable and delightfully svelte” – 2014 Foggy Hill Pinot Noir  »

Deep red colour with a tinge of purple and a floral, lifted boquet showing some earthy, minty and forest-floor nuances. Dried flowers. Chewy tannins, a trace of Vegemite from oak and development and (possibly) lees contact. The wine is full-bodied and dense, generous in fleshy extract, with an amplitude of ripe, supple tannins. The back-palate is lovely and rich.

 » Read more about: “A superb wine” – 2014 Foggy Hill Pinot Noir  »

A savoury and structured vintage for Foggy Hill true to a slightly warmer vintage, a wine of beetroot character, sour morello cherries and sweet and sour notes, with robust tannins and good persistence. A more rustic season for Foggy Hill.

92

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After losing control of Petaluma Wines to Lion Nathan (now Lion Co) early this century, founder Brian Croser established Tapanappa Wines, based on existing vineyards in the Piccadilly Valley (Adelaide Hills) and Wrattonbully, near Coonawarra. In 2003, Croser planted a pinot vineyard at Parawa, “the highest point of the Fleurieu Peninsula halfway between Victoria Harbour and Cape Jervis”,

 » Read more about: “a pinot of stunning quality” – 2014 Foggy Hill Pinot Noir  »

“This vineyard is really starting to express its character, and the warmest vintage yet is loaded with personality. It holds itself with persistence and poise, at once fragrant and fruity and simultaneously savoury and structured, with fine, drying tannins reflective of a warm season in a cool site.

94 points”

 » Read more about: “holds itself with persistence and poise” – 2013 Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir  »

Low grape yield led to a concentrated, powerful wine with sappy, spicy complexities plus cherry, vanilla and chocolate nuances. Soft, rich and ripe. Superb wine.

95 points

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Post-Petaluma, Brian Croser bought a sheep grazing property planted pinot noir and a distinguished site was born.

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NO WASHED-out, cordial-like colour for this robust pinot noir. Still revealing that lighter red drinking style typical of pinots, but offering bigger fruit flavours with nice spice. Loved it.

94/100

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Stem, soy, sesame – great fragrance, poise and delicacy plus plentiful cranberry crunch. The antithesis of the South Australia expectation!

17 points

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