Author: Brian Croser
Source: WBM
Date: Sep 2021
On September 30 I retire by decree, as a director of Wine Australia after an eventful seven years including three quite different iterations of the board and two chairpersons, not counting an interim chairperson.
I am the only soldier left standing from the initial board of Wine Australia, beginning as an amalgamation of the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation and the Australian Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation in July 2014.
Author: Anthony Madigan
Source: WBM
Date: Sep 2021
We can never know About tomorrow Still we have to choose Which way to go
You and I are standing At the crossroads Darling, there is one thing You should know
When I joined a wine publishing house 21 years ago my boss Paul Clancy gave me his old tuxedo for all those dinners he didn’t want to go to,
Author: Brian Croser
Source: The Buyer
Date: Aug 2021
Describing himself humbly as a ‘single vineyard vigneron’, others in the wine trade might call Tapanappa’s Brian Croser ‘a vine and wine visionary’ or ‘innovator’. In a career that has spanned more than 50 years he has arguably done more than anyone to shape the Australian wine industry – a true trailblazer, mentor and industry leader.
» Read more about: The New Normal: Winemaking in the COVID environment »
Author: Brian Croser
Source:
Date: Jul 2021
The Tiers Vineyard Old Block in the Piccadilly Valley is 41 years old, planted in 1980.
The oldest planting at The Tiers was planted the year before in 1979 and was pulled out in 2003 to make way for the new Tiers 1.5m planting of Dijon clones on rootstock at the high vine density of 1.5 metres between rows and 1.5m metres between vines in the row (4,444 vines/hectare).
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 tumult, roiling sickness and death in India and other developing nations,
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 behind these medal winning wines – the creatives, scientists, mavericks and dreamers who are at the pinnacle of winemaking.
» Read more about: The Master Winemaker 100: Brian Croser [Tapanappa Wines] »
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 and daffodils are flowering, the magnolia and almond blossoms are just emerging and we are pruning Tiers Vineyard.
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 Great Southern Ocean, gives a climate the equivalent of 40-45 degrees North. We should be a major supplier of fine wine to the globe.
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 for his nascent Petaluma wine operation. Much wine has flowed under the bridge since then,
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 this final version with a disclaimer: A hotter and drier future cannot be denied or avoided and each of us can and should do our utmost to mitigate that.
Author: Andrew Graham
Source: Oz Wine Review
Date: Mar 2020
I’m in cleanup mode at the moment, sifting through the (physical) sample pile and my (digital) notes to tidy things up Kondo-style.
While it’s cathartic to delete some half-baked stories written late at night, I’ve discovered some unpublished gems too – just like this set of notes from the Tapanappa Tiers vineyard 40th birthday event held last year in the Adelaide Hills.
» Read more about: THE TIERS VINEYARD TURNS 40. HERE IS A WHOLE LOTTA CHARDONNAY TO CELEBRATE »
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Source: Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine
Date: Mar 2020
Author: Huon Hooke
Source: Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine
Date: Mar 2020
Author: Brian Croser
Source: WBM
Date: Feb 2020
Leading winemaker Brian Croser AO shared his thoughts on smoke taint and the 2020 vintage in an article on the ABC website last week. Several people on social media criticised Brian for some of the things he said in that story. He was even branded a ‘dinosaur’. Here Brian iterates his thoughts on #V20.
» Read more about: ‘Be-Calmed’ – Brian Croser iterates his thoughts on the 2020 Australian Vintage »
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 Fleurieu Peninsula yielded to expectation.
The low yield in the Piccadilly Valley was mainly because of the cold,
» Read more about: 2019 Vintage Report – Small, Dry and Moderate »
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 book that starts out by declaiming that it is not written to be read in one session,
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 MW noted:
Once the wines surpassed the £20 mark, as one would expect,
» Read more about: 2015 Fleurieu Pinot delivers Gold… again »
Author:
Source:
Date: Jul 2018
4 August 2020 See this update. It transpires that Gingin, Mendoza and OF are in fact three different clones of Chardonnay, albeit from the same block in California.
6 November 2018 See also Chardonnay clones updated.
30 July 2018
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 the third party critical assessment of the wines. Like any parent I take offense when my wines (aka my alternative children) don’t achieve the points and accolades I think they deserve.
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 and hope for vintages that are above average in temperature.
The best wines from cool regions are made in the vintages that are warmer and drier than average.
Author: Nick Ryan
Source: WBM
Date: Feb 2018
Brian Croser reflects on the pioneering days, politics, wine industry leadership and the next generation.
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Jun 2017
A CONTRADICTORY VINTAGE
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 3 weeks compared to the average.
The wonderful feature of a delayed harvest is that the grapes undergo the heat sensitive final accumulation of aroma,
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 flavoured ripe fruit wines, the reds displaying bright, intense colours.
2016 vintage was dry,
» Read more about: 2016 Vintage Report – An extraordinary Vintage »
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 of an underground cave chock- full of ancient archaeological charms that have aroused scientists,
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