There’s a cooling aspect to this, with its jasmine and seaspray notes, but its core is nutty and peachy, and while it feels measured it also has a presence. This is a fine chardonnay. Stonefruit, pear and salted nut characters …
Author: Campbell Mattinson
Source: The Wine Front
Date: May 2024
There’s a cooling aspect to this, with its jasmine and seaspray notes, but its core is nutty and peachy, and while it feels measured it also has a presence. This is a fine chardonnay. Stonefruit, pear and salted nut characters …
Author: Tom Kline
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: May 2024
Planted in 1979, the Tiers Vineyard is purportedly the first to have been planted in the Piccadilly Valley since the 19th century. It’s a revered site with a history of producing hugely successful Chardonnay wines made by powerhouse Australian wine …
Author: Jeni Port
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Mar 2024
If Tiers 1.5m Chardonnay hails from the “new” block of French Bernard clones planted in 2003, fruit for this Tiers Chardonnay is off the “old” block, the original block established in 1979. A cool vintage and low yields bring good …
Author: Jeni Port
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Mar 2024
The Adelaide Hills 2023 vintage was the coolest of the four consecutive cool vintages since 2020. To quote winemaker, Brian Croser, the ’23 Chardonnays are far from “overt.” I find that re-assuring, the vintage speaks and it’s beautifully fine with …
Author: Jeni Port
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Mar 2024
Bright green-gold hues introduce an immediately engaging and open young Chardonnay. Captures the Adelaide Hills archetypal Chardonnay beautifully in delicious citrus and stone fruits – bright and energetic – aided by juicy, filigree fine acidity that drives the wine long. …
Author: Lester Jesberg
Source: Winewise
Date: Mar 2024
This wine offers aromas and flavours that strongly reflect white nectarine. Lees contact imparts an attractive nuttiness, and acidity drives the palate at this early stage.…
Author: Gary Walsh
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Feb 2024
Only 2011 was cooler than 2023 (of recent vintages) in the Piccadilly Valley, as expressed in HDD at 1093°, versus the long term average of 1135°. This is from a block planted in 1979, the clone unknown.
Pear, grapefruit and lemon …
Author: Gary Walsh
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Feb 2024
From a section of the Tiers vineyard close planted in 2003 using the Bernard clones 76 and 95. This is same same, but different to the old vine Tiers, a little fleshier, but it’s the texture that’s the main point …
Author: Marc Malouf
Source: Wine Worth Writing About
Date: Feb 2024
Pale gold with cyan reflections and a tight, but beautifully nuanced nose of orange and apple blossom, white peach, pear, apple, lemon, finger-lime, sugarmelon, dried galangal, cashew and honey nougat, fennel, a touch of spearmint, ocean salinity and a hint …
Author: Marc Malouf
Source: Wine Worth Writing About
Date: Feb 2024
Pale gold with cyan and silver reflections and a nose of honeysuckle, pear, fleshy lemon and lime, white pineapple and peach, white pepper, chervil, coriander seed, ripe fig, candied almond, custard, butter, spearmint and anise. Saint Aubin vibes! In the …
Author: Marc Malouf
Source: Wine Worth Writing About
Date: Feb 2024
Pale gold with cyan and silver reflections and a nose of orange blossom, floral apples, splice, grilled nectarine, ripe fig, pineapple sage, white pepper, oats/grains and a whisper of spearmint.
In the mouth it’s tart, dry and tense with driving …
Author: Regan Drew
Source: VinoNotebook.com
Date: Feb 2024
Medium-light straw with green highlights. Rich and floral. Full of freshly sliced stone fruit and apple, white blossoms, fig, white chocolate, a little peanut oil, a nuance of oyster shell brine, grapefruit citrus and white stones. Inherent fruit richness which …
Author: Regan Drew
Source: VinoNotebook
Date: Feb 2024
Pale lemon with green highlights. Fruit focused, but remaining delicate and intense. Pear, apple, sherbet, warm cinnamon spice, grapefruit and preserved lemon citrus, clove oil and torn brioche. Delicate texture, with precision and focus. Pomme fruit and grapefruit echoes after …
Author: Regan Drew
Source: VinoNotebook.com
Date: Feb 2024
Pale lemon hue. Floral and fragrant. Pomme fruit and blossom, easy roast roast nut delicacy, soft honey, bread crust, ground salt and grapefruit pith. Such flow and evenness with incredibly complex layers of fruit and winemaking that swirl and writhe …
Author: Steve Leszczynski
Source: QWineReviews.com
Date: Feb 2024
A layered and energetic Chardonnay from Tapanappa, this Piccadilly Valley comes from a cool and late vintage – the coolest of four successive cooler years from 2020.
Seeing a third new French oak, a creme brulee and caramel creaminess talks …
Author: Steve Leszczynski
Source: QWineReviews.com
Date: Feb 2024
And you thought the Tiers 1.5m was something special? Woah! This is a treat and then some. The Tiers from Tapanappa has quite rightly built itself a reputation over the years and this further cements its standing as one of …
Author: Huon Hooke
Source: The Real Review
Date: Feb 2024
Lighty toasted cashewnut aroma, hints of vanilla and almond-meal, the palate refined and tense, concentrated and yet seamlessly textured and composed. The wine is very smooth and rounded, with plenty of acidity but you barely feel it. Lovely depth of …
Author: Huon Hooke
Source: The Real Review
Date: Feb 2024
Restrained straw/dried-herb aromas, the palate searingly intense with strong lemon/grapefruit flavours and lively acidity which is felt throughout the mouth. Intense, focused and bright on the tongue, super-refreshing and almost tangy, with a gorgeous fruit-sweet core and a cleansing, refreshing …
Author: Steve Leszczynski
Source: QWineReviews.com
Date: Feb 2024
Finesse and purity all the way. The step up in class is evident compared to the Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay, this Tapanappa Tiers 1.5m is calming and stylish with a charismatic swagger.
It glides and sways with ease. The presence of …
Author: Huon Hooke
Source: The Real Review
Date: Jan 2024
Light yellow-straw colour; nougat aromas, toasted nuts and honey, the palate delicate, refined, high-acid and tangy, refreshing and bright on the tongue. A vibrant and intense, piercingly focused wine that lingers long and refreshes. The fruit is doing most of …
Author: Campbell Mattinson
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Dec 2023
I had to double-check the vintage on this wine but it’s definitely a 2023 in 2023. Not that there’s anything greatly unusual about that.
Pear, lemon, a little flint, and sprays of hay and sawdust. Pure of fruit and integrated …
Author: James Halliday
Source: James Halliday's Top 100
Date: Nov 2023
From a small area planted 1979, then replanted with Dijon clones on a very close 1.5m spacing, the fruiting wire only 50cm above ground level. The yellow grapefruit is almost painfully intense and mouth-watering, the finish hypnotic.
Drink to 2042…
Author: Max Allen
Source: Australia Financial Review
Date: Nov 2023
Scintillating chardonnay, so pure, fresh and intense, with crystalline focus and thrilling presence. Ravishing now, in its youth, but will mature beautifully over many years.…
Author: Kasia Sobiesiak
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Oct 2023
This is like the regular Tapanappa Chardonnay but better, but more. Cinnamon scroll laced with creamy, lightly sour icing, melting white chocolate praline with a refreshing minty nuance. It has a solid base of peaches and apples. Satin-like confident cool …
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