Recognition

Tag: Piccadilly Valley

All beautifully built, melting but lively | 96 Points | Kasia Sobiesiak | The Wine Front- Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Kasia Sobiesiak
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Oct 2023

This is like the regular Tapanappa Chardonnay but better, but more. Cinnamon scroll laced with creamy, lightly sour icing, melting white chocolate praline with a refreshing minty nuance. It has a solid base of peaches and apples. Satin-like confident cool …

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It’s lively and very long finish. | 96 Points | Gary Walsh | The Wine Front- Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Gary Walsh
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Oct 2023

A little struck match, grapefruit, lemon oil, apple and lime, cinnamon pasty dough, white chocolate and mint, so much presence and power, with bitter lemon and zinging acidity, and zesty tang. Biscuits too, on its lively and very long finish, …

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A great deal of savoury and fresh, vibrant and bursting with life. | 95 points | Kasia Sobiesiak- Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2022

Author: Kasia Sobiesiak
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Oct 2023

Gunflint. Ka-pow! This is pushing with such amazing energy to start. Zesty grapefruit, lemon pith and nectarines, all sitting on the just-underripe edge, zingy and zippy. A hint of cinnamon-dusted green apple, fresh dough and lavender with pink grapefruit. It …

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Needs a little time to settle, but really good. | 94 points | Gary Walsh – Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2022

Author: Gary Walsh
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Oct 2023

Matchstick, grapefruit and white nectarine, bit of cinnamon spice. Classic Hills Chardonnay with flinty texture, but also rich and cashew creamy, ribs of acidity, lively and zesty, a bit breathy with struck match at present, but pleasantly so for the …

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Excellent release. | 95 Points | Stuart Robinson | The Vinsomniac – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Stuart Robinson
Source: The Vinsomniac
Date: Aug 2023

Another “near perfect” vintage remarks Brian Croser in the notes accompanying the release. Slightly warmer than 2021, but like that vintage it’s considered spot on – compared to the run of warmer years in the decade from around the 2010s.

Exquisite …

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A creamy generosity, febrile energy and kaleidoscopic complexity all in one. | 96 points | Halliday Wine Companion – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay 2022

Author: Ned Goodwin MW
Source: Halliday Wine Companion
Date: Aug 2023

An incredibly intense chardonnay, mid-weighted and tightly furled. The edges are as chewy as they are sleek, with a parry of freshness melding with a thrust of oak, effortlessly subsumed by the sheer palate-staining extract. White peach, nectarine, peat and …

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It is among the country’s great | 97 points | Ned Goodwin MW | Halliday Wine Companion – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Ned Goodwin MW
Source: Halliday Wine Companion
Date: Aug 2023

While the 1.5m Chardonnay sibling is arguably more impressive on release, this is resinous and latent with multitudinous layers of flavour compressed by classy oak and juicy acidity. I like the way the fruit is subdued in a quasi-burgundian fashion, …

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Tremendous line and length promise great things in time. | 95 points | Tyson Stelzer | Wine Business Magazine – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Tyson Stelzer
Source: Wine Business Magazine
Date: Jun 2023

The inherent power and confidence of Tiers is intricately toned by the tension and grace of this cool season, defining a linear and taut style of tremendous endurance and promise. The richness of this place rumbles away in the background …

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Delicate and pure | Peter Forrestal | Money Magazine – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Peter Forrestal
Source: Money Magazine
Date: Jun 2023

While the quality of Australian Chardonnay is improving exponentially, Brian Croser’s Tiers remains among the finest as it glides into its fifth decade. Consecutive, near perfect and slightly cooler vintages in the Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide Hills have once …

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Subtle bouquet… with a very refreshing acidity | Gold 96 points | Decanter World Wine Awards – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

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Source: Decanter World Wine Awards
Date: Jun 2023

Subtle bouquet of white peach and lemon zest with tones of savoury and herbaceous notes. Creamy on the palate, with a very refreshing acidity.

GOLD, 96 points 

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Needs a few years to see its full potential | 94 points | Andrew Graham – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Andrew Graham
Source: Australian Wine Review
Date: Jun 2023

As ever with Tiers, this needs a few years to see its full potential (as this vertical showed). And this 2022 release feels achingly young. Too young for now. On the first pass against the rest of the wines in …

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A seriously fine modern Chardonnay | 94 points | Andrew Graham – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay 2022

Author: Andrew Graham
Source: Australian Wine Review
Date: Jun 2023

There is little difference quality-wise to the M3 & the Tiers 1.5m, and separating them was just hair-splitting. This is even more linear and coiled than the M3, and I suspect it will be longer lived. Doesn’t feel as open, …

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A delicious Chardonnay | 93 points | Halliday Wine Companion – Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2022

Author: Ned Goodwin MW
Source: Halliday Wine Companion
Date: May 2023

Sourced from a troika of cool-climate sites, this is a delicious chardonnay: mid-weighted and tense with glazed quince, tangerine and stone fruit allusions curled across some honeycomb oak (33% new) and a chord of acid vibrato. Almond meal and toasted …

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Delicious and distinctive | Tony Love – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Tony Love
Source: InDaily
Date: May 2023

From Brian Croser’s pioneer Piccadilly Valley vineyard, this is an all-enveloping Chardonnay experience, captivatingly ripe in its aromatic and flavour profile, white peach/nectarine with grapefruit inserts, a sense of creaminess, vanilla shortbreads and a faint spicy oak backdrop, which comes …

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Super wine and great value | 94 points | Angus Hushson – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay 2022

Author: Angus Hughson
Source: Winepilot
Date: May 2023

This is a Chardonnay that is screaming for the cellar, and at least three or four years thanks to its current state which is wound up tight as a spring. It is bursting with embryonic aromas – grapefruit and tonic …

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Every element in its perfect place | 96 points | Angus Hughson – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Angus Hughson
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: May 2023

This is an immaculate Chardonnay and one of best Tiers vintages yet with every element in its perfect place. It opens with beautifully precise and detailed aromas of grapefruit, honeydew melon and chalky minerality topped by fine new oak all …

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Such a delicious Chardonnay | 9.7/10 | Max Crus – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Max Crus
Source: Max Crus Saturday Wine Column
Date: May 2023

Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022, $110. It is almost impossible to get the double consonants correct with this wine, but that is irrelevant, it is such a delicious chardonnay it is almost sacrilege to put it in the

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Utterly seamless and impeccably balance | 97 points | Ken Gargett – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Ken Gargett
Source: Winepilot
Date: Apr 2023

One of Australia’s most famous Chardonnays, though I fear it got a bit lost for some with the division of Petaluma and the emergence of Tapanappa. For me, this latest Tiers from the Tapanappa team must surely sit with the

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A refined, elegant chardonnay | 95 points | Ken Gargett – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay 2022

Author: Ken Gargett
Source: Winepilot
Date: Apr 2023

From the legendary Tiers Vineyard, planted alongside the Old Block vines, these are close-planted, as the title implies, and tend to ripen a little earlier. As much as I enjoyed the Piccadilly Chardonnay, for me this is a real step …

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A highly satisfying chardonnay | 96 points | Huon Hooke – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard 1.5M Chardonnay 2022

Author: Huon Hooke
Source: The Real Review
Date: Apr 2023

Bright light yellow with a discreet wheaty, Weetbix, faintly malty bouquet, with excellent concentration of fruit flavour that’s focused and tensioned, with a clean dry finish replete with refreshing acidity. The finish lingers long and the aftertaste is satisfying and …

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A very attractive wine | 92 points | Huon Hooke – Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2022

Author: Huon Hooke
Source: The Real Review
Date: Apr 2023

Light, bright yellow hue with a creamy, nutty, cashew and creamy lees bouquet, a hint of Weetbix, straightforward and youthful, the palate intense and long, refined and subtle. Very attractive wine and the price is right.

92 points 

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A superb chardonnay with a bright future | 97 points | Huon Hooke – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Huon Hooke
Source: The Real Review
Date: Apr 2023

Very light yellow hue, a restrained style of chardonnay with a fresh, fruit-driven bouquet of lemon, nut and nougat aromas, while the palate is intense and piercing, deep, concentrated and powerful, with biscuity overtones and brightly refreshing and quite penetrating …

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Classical, beautifully balanced and multi-layered | 96 points | Andrew Caillard MW – Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Andrew Caillard MW
Source: The Vintage Journal
Date: Mar 2023

Pale colour. Very attractive grapefruit lemon curd, tonic water aromas with marzipan, vanilla notes. Classical, beautifully balanced and multi-layered wine with grapefruit, lemon curd, tonic water flavours, grilled nut, marzipan notes, chalky hint grippy textures and pure crisp acidity. Very …

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Well-balanced and delicious | 95 points | Andrew Caillard MW – Tapanappa Tiers 1.5m Vineyard Chardonnay 2022

Author: Andrew Caillard MW
Source: The Vintage Journal
Date: Mar 2023

Pale colour. Fresh lifted pear drop, white peach, lemon curd, grilled nut aromas. Well concentrated and mPale colour. Lifted grapefruit, nectarine, lemon curd aromas with tonic water, grilled almond notes. Well balanced and delicious drinking chardonnay with fresh sinuous grapefruit, …

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