Tapanappa Eden Valley 2022 Riesling

Tapanappa’s central philosophy is to grow wines reflective of the unique terroirs of its own selected “distinguished sites”.

Tapanappa’s Eden Valley Riesling is an exception to its “own vineyard” philosophy. The Riesling grapes are grown in the Eden Valley vineyard of the Bartholomeus family, a vineyard identified for its superior quality by Con Moshos while he was working at Mount Adam in High Eden from 2005 until 2014.

It is also a return to roots for me, as the last wine I made from Eden Valley was the famous 1975 Hardy’s Siegersdorf Riesling.

Con makes this wine, applying the fastidious techniques we refined at Petaluma together over the nearly 3 decades until 2005.

2022 vintage in Eden Valley was nearly perfect as elsewhere, being cool and dry after textbook growing conditions.The Bartholomeus Vineyard yielded a small and beautifully mature crop of late picked Riesling grapes on the 30th of March.

2022 ranks as one of the coolest vintages of this century so far and the 2022 Tapanappa Riesling has the floral intensity and acid finish expected.