The 2024 vintage in the Piccadilly was slightly warmer than average and early. The growing season accumulated 1194°C-days versus the average of 1108°C days. 2024 was not the coolest of the five successive cooler vintages from 2020, but …
I’m reviewing this a little later in the day, so there will be Tiers before bedtime. I’ll fetch my coat. Nectarine, grapefruit, nougat, a little spice and cedar. It’s lively, a grapefruit tang to acidity and flavour, there’s something of …
The earliest vintage ever, harvested on the 6th of March, three to four weeks ahead of the average. White peach, pear, grapefruit, cedar and spice, aniseed, a little salted pastry dough too. It’s bright and juicy, a grapefruit and lime …
Light-mid yellow; oatmeal and smoky oak aromas, the wine is tensioned and focused with precise lemon and chalky mineral flavours that extend tight, lean and long on the palate. Lipsmacking dry, crisp, refreshing finish. 91 Points…
There’s a lot of richness and warmth to this wine. The designated, labelled 14.5% may be a furphy, but there’s distinct breathiness, soupy texture, ripe fruit character and a kind of booze-soaked fruit and nut note that feels pervasive. Sure, …
The 44-year-old vines of The Tiers Vineyard are producing wonderful ageworthy wines that demonstrate terroir distinction across the large spectrum of vintage heat summations this decade.
There is more yellow but with a green edge for the colour. The aroma …
2025 Tiers 1.5M Vineyard Chardonnay stands alongside its older sibling, the 2025 Tiers Old Block, as an equal but with subtle differences induced by its close-spaced, French clone on rootstock, earlier ripening habit. Both wines truly reflect the Tiers’ unique …
Despite the warm, dry vintage, the Piccadilly Valley has again defined a very special Chardonnay, from three 40-year-old vineyards on its western slopes.
The 2025 Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay has a significant green-yellow colour. The terroir’s distinctive aroma is of very …
The date was the 10th August 1993 and I was hopelessly lost, woefully hungover, and seriously late. For an appointment with one of the most formidable intellects on the wine planet, Brian Croser. An individual known not to suffer fools, …
Brian Croser has been in the Australian wine industry for over 50 years. He helped build it. Now he’s watching it struggle — and he’s got a lot to say about why. This is a big conversation. Brian sits down …
Everyone knows the Australian wine industry is a basket case. We …
After a succession of quite cool vintages in the Piccadilly Valley, the 2025 vintage turned everything around, being the warmest, the driest and the earliest vintage on record. The result is a wine that displays slightly more richness and generosity …
Considered, ripe and generous, this Piccadilly Chardonnay comes from the warmest, driest and earliest vintage on record at the winery. From 40-year-old vines, the fruit was whole bunch pressed to French oak (33% new) seeing five months in oak on …
Medium-light straw hue. Straw bale, grapefruit flesh, smoked chicken meatiness, tonic, peanut oil, lemon barley before richer and riper stone fruit, quince, white choc/coconut ball, balsa wood, dried fig and café latte creaminess. A wine of power and presence. Texturally …
The colour of the 2025 Tapanappa Eden Valley Riesling is green and yellow.
The aroma is intense and of ripe citrus, the blood orange end of the spectrum rather than the more typical Eden Valley lime and floral.
The flavours …
The 2025 vintage in the Adelaide Hills is the warmest, driest and earliest vintage on record, certainly providing a change and a challenge for the winemakers. That said, early indications are that it will provide excellent wines, although in its …
There’s flavour in the acidity and pear, grapefruit, lemonade and white peach flavours are delivered generously throughout. There’s no mistaking the variety; this is chardonnay to its core. There’s a minerally edge to the back half of the wine and …
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