A juicy red with dried flowers, ripe strawberries and cedar. Some leather and tobacco, too. It’s medium-bodied with fine tannins and a tangy and fresh finish. Drink now or hold.
93 points
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Author: JamesSuckling.com
Source: James Suckling
Date: Dec 2022
A juicy red with dried flowers, ripe strawberries and cedar. Some leather and tobacco, too. It’s medium-bodied with fine tannins and a tangy and fresh finish. Drink now or hold.
93 points
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Author: Andrew Caillard MW
Source: The Vintage Journal
Date: Dec 2022
Medium crimson. Red cherry pastille, hint bush garrigue with touches of vanilla. Round and supple with red cherry, red liquorice flavours, fine chalky / lacy textures and attractive mineral length. Minerally, structured and needs some time to develop. Drink now …
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. |
The sharp-minded, deliberate and controversial Brian Croser has been a forceful and polarising advocate of Australia’s fine wine …
Author: James Halliday Top 100
Source: The Australian
Date: Nov 2022
James Halliday’s Top 100 wines for 2022 have been revealed!
We are thrilled to announce our 2019 Foggy Hill Vineyard DEFINITUS Pinot Noir has made the prestigious list.
2019 Foggy Hill DEFINITUS Pinot Noir
Bramble, briar and black tea …
Author: Angus Hughson
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Sep 2022
(1330 HDD vs 1331 HDD). More HDD measurements! Every vineyard! GIVE US THE STATS. Seriously, |
93 Points…
Author: Angus Hughson
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Sep 2022
The 2019 vintage of Definitus is a highly seductive release bursting with fruit flavour, particularly in the dark fruit spectrum. There is a delicious and powerful blend of dark cherry and fruits of the forest that offer quite a forceful |
Author: Campbell Mattinson
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Aug 2022
There’s a lot of spice here, and autumnal effects, and general savouriness/earthiness in there with the fruit. I thought at first that it was peddling a bit too hard, but strangely enough the wine seemed to tighten and become more |
Author: Andrew Graham
Source: Australian Wine Review
Date: Jul 2022
It’s been another rough week here at Graham HQ, which means another noticeable lack of bottles opened. The wine sample department doth spilleth over, now extending from cupboard to a stack of boxes in the kitchen. Anyway, this is the |
Author: Huon Hooke
Source: The Real Review
Date: Jul 2022
Bright, light-medium ruby-purple colour, the aromas fragrant and raspberry, strawberry tinged, while the wine is light bodied and softly textured, the tannins positive, powdery and cleansing the finish. Good fruit purity and it has backbone. It should mature in a |
Author: Huon Hooke
Source: The Real Review
Date: Jul 2022
Medium depth of colour, still bright and fresh with a tinge of purple at the rim. The bouquet is spicy, whole-bunchy and quite complex, forest-floor and root-vegetable nuances chiming in with the red fruits and finished with a twist of |
Author: Gary Walsh
Source: www.winefront.com.au
Date: Jun 2022
There’s a lot of spice here, and autumnal effects, and general savouriness/earthiness in there with the fruit. I thought at first that it was peddling a bit too hard, but strangely enough the wine seemed to tighten and become more |
Author: Gary Walsh
Source: https://www.winefront.com.au/
Date: Jun 2022
This bottle is screwcap sealed. Aside that, it’s pretty clear that Tapanappa have done very well out of the 2021 vintage, as have many others. Red fruits, spiced strawberry mainly, kind of autumnal, a little mint. It’s light to medium-bodied, |
Author: Max Crus
Source: www.maxcrus.com.au
Date: May 2022
This is quite possibly the most flagrantly fragrant red wine in Australia, you can smell it all night, or, at only 12.5 percent drink it too and still drive home. |
9.4/10…
Author: Max Crus
Source: www.maxcrus.com.au
Date: May 2022
You don’t often see the winemaker mentioned on the front label, but with Brian in charge, why wouldn’t you? It’s astonishing two wines from the same vineyard could be so different, yet still so lovely. This is superior, bountiful pinot |
Author:
Source: The Global Pinot Noir Masters 2022
Date: May 2022
Palish garnet with a hint of brick.
Correct. Mid intensity. Developing. Red fruit, oak, herbal and spicy.
Dry, mid-low acidity, mid bodied, warm alcohol. Decent grainy tannins. Fruits follows through from the nose. Mid length.
Silver…
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: Tyson Stelzer
Source: Halliday Wine Companion 2022
Date: Aug 2021
Characterful and energetic, this is probably the most distinctive pinot that Brian Croser has drawn from his Foggy Hill Vineyard yet. The best clones in the best part of the site unite in a savoury style, filled with beetroot, Moroccan …
Author: Tony Love
Source: Halliday Wine Companion 2022
Date: Aug 2021
15% of the fruit was placed at the bottom of the fermenting tubs, progressively crushed. Each block was pressed separately, and clonally, then settled and matured on full lees in one-third new barriques for 10 months. A darker note of …
Author: Andrew Graham
Source: Oz Wine Review
Date: Jul 2021
Pinot Noir doesn’t need to taste like Burgundy to be good. This Tapanappa Definitus Pinot Noir 2018 is the example of this.
It’s a Pinot of rippling power. Of tannins and conviction. A Bordeaux drinkers Pinot Noir, if you’re still …
Author: Campbell Mattinson
Source: The Wine Front
Date: May 2021
It’s a firm, fragrant, spice-riddled pinot noir with blueberry and macerated cherry notes shot through with aromatic herb notes. In fact it’s quite earthen, almost beetroot-like, with a sweetness to the finish in the context of its dry/earthen style. This …
Author: Campbell Mattinson
Source: The Wine Front
Date: May 2021
There are four hectares of pinot noir growing on the Foggy Hill vineyard; this is from a one-hectare strip. It’s planted at a density of 4444 vines/hectare, using clones 115 and 777, all planted on rootstock.
Firm, ripe and convincing. …
Author: Stuart Robinson
Source: The Vinsomniac
Date: May 2021
Sour cherry and dark fruit profile, touch more of the savoury – almost hedgerow, stem like – than I necessarily recall. For that depth of aromatics, it carries a lightness to itself; silken in its flow across the palate and …
Author: Andrew Graham
Source: Australian Wine Review
Date: May 2021
Brian Croser’s Fleurieu Peninsula Pinot has evolved quite a bit over its existence, the style reaching for more delicacy every vintage. It doesn’t always get there, but the trade-off is a wine with no shortage of power. It’s easy to …
Author: Angus Hughson
Source: Captain Wine Pilot
Date: May 2021
For Foggy Hill the 2018 Definitus is quite open for business at a young age, no doubt thanks to the warm and dry vintage. Bright mid cherry in colour, there is a powerful core of dark and red cherry fruits …
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