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While it’s cathartic to delete some half-baked stories written late at night, I’ve discovered some unpublished gems too – just like this set of notes from the Tapanappa Tiers vineyard 40th birthday event held last year in the Adelaide Hills.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 »
Author:
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: 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: 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:
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,
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 ends up in a heated discussion of the merits of,
» Read more about: Making our drops hot – The Australian 5/08/2015 »
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 winery was 1979 and it has just completed its 37th vintage in a wonderfully functional way.
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Jul 2015
Tapanappa in conjunction with The Wine Emporium and Lutèce Bistro are hosting a wine dinner in Brisbane on Tuesday 25th August. A great chance to see each of our single vineyard wines alongside French counterparts.
See attached flyer for more information, for reservations call Lutèce on 07 31611858 or email bookings@lutece.com.au
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2014
Curious things happen in vineyards as the season unfolds and almost none more curious than in lead-up the 2014 vintage. The apparently ideal conditions of the winter leading into the 2014 vintage unexpectedly threw up a miserable quantity of grapes albeit of very good quality.
Tapanappa’s 3 terroirs, Tiers in the Piccadilly Valley,
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Jan 2014
This paper was presented by Brian at a conference in London, January 2014.
THE NOBLE HOUSE OF CARMENET.
INTRODUCTION
Carmenet is an old Medoc synonym for Cabernet Franc.
It is also the name given to the Bordeaux family of wine-grape varieties by Levadoux in 1948 in his classification of France’s ampelographical assemblage into eco-georoups,
Author: Sarah Ahmed
Source: The Wine Detective
Date: Jan 2014
As part of her Limestone Coast regional tour, Sarah Ahmed has produced a detailed article on the geology and associated wines of the Wrattonbully region, including a look at our unique Whalebone Vineyard. Read the full article here: http://www.thewinedetective.co.uk/blog/australia/the-limestone-coast-par…
As part of this she reviewed both our 2009 Whalbone wines as follows.
» Read more about: The Wine Detective looks at Wrattonbully »
Author: Brian Croser
Source: WBM Magazine
Date: Dec 2013
The following letter was published in WBM Magazine’s weekly newsletter on 29th, November 2013.
After a decade of being deliberately agnostic about the Australian wine community’s political processes, my frustration at the continuing bad news story that the Australian wine community hierarchy conspires for itself, boiled over in an essay I wrote,
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Jancis Robinson
Date: Nov 2013
This essay also appears on Jancis Robinson’s site at: http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201311012.html
Barring global financial accidents, geopolitical upheaval or an asteroid strike, 2014 should be a good business year propelled by the gathering momentum of the US economy, which should also tame our dollar. Fine wine is at the forefront of consumption growth and the US has a structural deficiency of grape supply.
Author: Eli Greenblat
Source: The Age
Date: Oct 2013
The following article by Eli Greenblat comes from The Age, 7/10/2013
Australian wine-making legend Brian Croser, founder of Petaluma, has attracted the big guns of champagne to his latest wine venture, with the scion of France’s famous Bollinger champagne house joining the board of his privately owned Tapanappa Wines.
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