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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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 …
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 …
Author: Margaret Rand
Source: Wine Searcher
Date: Jul 2023
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 …
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 |
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 …
Author:
Source: The Global Pinot Noir Masters 2022
Date: Dec 2021
Pale ruby, some brick red, interesting nose, some dried grass, hay, spearmint, dried herbs, but also sweet red berry and vanilla, then fresh orange. Palate also mixed sweet chocolate and vanilla oak and ripe berry fruit with some orange and …
Author: Jeni Port
Source: https://www.winecompanion.com.au
Date: Dec 2021
Hand-picked fruit, chilled in trays, whole-berry pressed, fermented in French oak barriques (one-third new). Matured in barrel on full lees. From a year of frost and fire comes, according to Brian Croser, a ‘miracle’. The 2020 offers a celebration not …
Author: Jeni Port
Source: https://www.winecompanion.com.au
Date: Dec 2021
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, sporting brisk acidity and keen, juicy fruit. Opens with aromas of lemon blossom, all lemony clean …
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2021
Brian Croser reports on the 2021 vintage, which he describes as ‘perfection in a sea of uncertainty’.
In South Australia we have just completed one of the very best vintages of my 51-vintage career.
Against a background of global social …
Author: Arabella Mileham
Source: The Drinks Business
Date: Aug 2020
…Earlier this year, The drinks business published a guide celebrating the talent of the winemakers who have scooped the highest accolade of our Global Masters tasting series, which is judged almost exclusively by MWs. Each week we profile the winemakers
Author: Jancis Robinson
Source: Jancis Robinson
Date: Aug 2020
In the spring an old man’s fancy lightly turns to cheering us all up. Brian Croser ruminates in the Adelaide Hills.
The annual cycle turns regardless of drought, bushfires and COVID- 19. The wattles are in full blossom, the jonquils …
Author: Margaret Rand
Source: The World of Fine Wine
Date: Jun 2020
There have been few more influential figures in the modern history of Australian wine than Brian Croser.
“I always had the conviction that Australia’s national geographical attributes, climate and soils, its very stable temperate climate on the edge of the …
Author: Jancis Robinson
Source: Jancis Robinson
Date: May 2020
I think it was Xavier Bizot who had the idea of celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the planting of the Tiers vineyard in the Adelaide Hills in 1979.
He is the son-in-law of Brian Croser, who initially planted the vines …
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2020
Note this report was also published at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/south-australia-2020-unforgettable
Last time I wrote about the emerging 2020 vintage I was branded ‘a denier’, ‘a dinosaur’ and ‘an angry old white man with a tin ear’, among other compliments. Let me begin …
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2019
The description of the 2019 harvest is worthy of a politician or two.
The most startling aspect of the 2019 vintage in the Piccadilly Valley and to a lesser extent Wrattonbully, is the very low yield. Foggy Hill on the …
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Jul 2018
The 2015 Fleurieu Peninsula Pinot Noir has once again picked up a gold at the Drinks Business, 2018 Global Pinot Noir Masters. Further raising questions over Brian’s decision to declassify this wine! In his summary of the competition Patrick Schmitt …
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Jancis Robinson
Date: Jul 2018
This book review by Brian first appeared on JancisRobinson.com here: https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/wine-and-place-book-review
Wine and Place – A terroir reader
Tim Patterson and John Buechsenstein
University of California Press
ISBN 9780520277007
$39.95
This book is the story of my life.
For a …
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2018
Being in the fine wine growing and making business is deeply personal.
I have spent 40 years choosing distinguished vineyard sites, planting them with the right variety, refining the viticulture and the winemaking and enduring the swings and roundabouts of …
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2018
I am over above average temperature vintages.
One of the great paradoxes of winemaking is that to make the best wines from our established suite of noble varieties, choose a cool region, look for the warmest site in the region …
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Jun 2017
2017 vintage was very late in each of Tapanappa’s 3 distinguished sites. The single outstanding feature of the 2017 vintage was that each of the phenological events of the vine’s growing season was delayed by 2 to …
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2016
The final barriques of 2016 vintage wines have been filled awaiting the finish of malo-lactic fermentation. In our vineyards in the Piccadilly Valley, at Parawa, on the Fleurieu Peninsula and at Wrattonbully it has been an abundant vintage of full …
Author: Des Houghton
Source: Courier Mail
Date: Oct 2015
…Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard at Wrattonbully, in South Australia, is less than an hour from the ocean and has more maritime influences than you can imagine.
The bones of a 37 million- year-old whale were found to be supporting the roof
Author: Will Lyons
Source: The Australian
Date: Aug 2015
The following article featured in The Australian 5/08/2015
…Brian Croser says the future of Australia’s fine wine lies in the country’s cool-climate areas
WILL LYONS
Can you name the world’s great fine-wine regions? This wine con- noisseurs’ parlour game usually
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Jul 2015
2015 was a special vintage for me, the first back in the winery that I built as the Petaluma Winery now the Tapanappa Winery, since I resigned as Petaluma’s winemaker after the 2005 vintage. The first vintage in the fledgling …
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