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.
Etienne Bizot,
Author: Patrick Schmitt
Source: Drinks Business
Date: Sep 2013
The following article by Patrick Schmitt appeared on Drinks Business, 20th September 2013.
Australia should shift its emphasis from the personalities behind the wines to the places where they come from in a bid to further the country’s fine wine reputation.
That’s the view of Frenchman Xavier Bizot, who is general manager of Australia’s Tapanappa,
» Read more about: Emphasis on winemaker too strong in OZ’ »
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Jun 2013
Foggy Hill was planted in 2003.
The 2013 vintage just finished was a wonderful way to celebrate the 10th birthday of this unique and lonely vineyard. Dry and warm by virtue of warmer than average nights, the compete description of the great 2013 vintage is on Tapanappa’s web site here: http://www.tapanappawines.com.au/blog/may2013/2013-vintage-report.
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2013
2013 was a very warm and dry vintage.
2013 was also a wonderful vintage.
Despite near record warmth at all three of the Tapanappa terroirs, there were very few days above 35°C, no extended heat waves and it was night warmth that contributed to the elevated heat summations.
Night warmth is good.
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Feb 2013
The following seminar was presented in London as part of a look at Chilean Cabernet.
Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon
This Global Exploration is a celebration of the great quality and diversity of the noble Cabernet Sauvignon.
It is also recognition of the importance of this variety to the Chile where it has flourished on its own roots for more than 160 years.
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Oct 2012
While not specifically Tapanappa news, it is nonethless very pleasing to see Brian’s lifelong commitment to Riesling honored by the Canberra International Riesling Challenge, awarding him the 2012 Wolf Blass Award for his contribution to the development and promotion of Riesling.
Brian unfortunately wasn’t able to be present to receive the award, but with good and topical excuse,
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2012
Two blogs in a day!
Not quite, as the previous one had been under preparation for some time.
Having hailed the 2012 vintage in the great tradition of Murray Tyrrell (renowned for announcing the vintage of the century every year), I feel compelled to defend vintage 2010.
The statistics of heat summation and summer rain for vintage 2010 reveal it as one of,
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: May 2012
It’s been along time between posts.
The last post was “The Big Stretch”, the paper I wrote on Chile for a seminar on South American wines in London in January.
Since then the 2012 vintage has ripened beautifully, was carefully harvested and is in barriques slowly going through malo-lactic fermentation as winter approaches.
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Feb 2012
The following paper was recently given by Brian at the inaugural South American Wine Workshop in London.
“THE BIG STRETCH”
THE EMERGING CHILEAN FINE WINE INDUSTRY
INTRODUCTION
I am not an expert on the Chilean wine industry and even less so on the Argentinean wine industry.
Andres Ilabaca and the team from Vina Santa Rita can put their vineyards and wines into context better than I can and Edgardo del Popolo is a leader of the Argentinean wine industry,
» Read more about: The Big Stretch – The Emerging Chilean Fine WIne Industry »
Author: Jancis Robinson
Source: Jancis Robinson
Date: Feb 2012
The following article is taken from Jancis Robinson’s website: http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201202131.html
US shortfall may solve OZ surplus by Jancis Robinson, 13 Feb 2012
La Niña and the succession of cool, rainy summers it has inflicted on much of south-east Australia may be making life extremely difficult for grape growers who in 2011 and 2012 are having to combat unusual conditions in the vineyard.
Author: Brian Croser
Source: Tapanappa
Date: Nov 2011
On Monday night (the 21st) in the multi-faceted Leonard French Grand Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria we were treated to a tasting of international Pinot Noirs reflecting and refracting the spectrum of hues, aromas, flavours and palate architecture of this fascinating grape variety.
The 12th Stonier International Pinot Noir Tasting (SIPNOT) was also reflective of the ongoing passion of Brian Stonier AO.,
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