Burgundy, France, is the epicenter of the Chardonnay grape’s world, but the world itself has taken on this white grape as it’s own. Chardonnay is one the most widely grown grape varieties in the world and can be found pretty …
Author: Canadian Wine Guy
Source: www.canadianwineguy.com
Date: Jun 2010
Burgundy, France, is the epicenter of the Chardonnay grape’s world, but the world itself has taken on this white grape as it’s own. Chardonnay is one the most widely grown grape varieties in the world and can be found pretty …
Author: Emma Reeves
Source: The Adelaide Advertiser
Date: Jun 2010
Chef Emma Reeves gathers friends and family for a relaxed festive feast at Lady Bay Beach.
Shaved summer salad with raspberry vinaigrette, served with 2007 Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay, Adelaide Hills.…
Author: Sarah Ahmed
Source: The WIne Detective
Date: Jun 2010
Brian Croser is the man who founded pioneering winery, Petaluma, the first in the Adelaide Hills. He is known as Australia’s original ?terroirist? for his unrelenting pursuit of his countryman, Dr AC Kelly’s vision of 1867 that ?in the great …
Author: Joanna Simon
Source: www.joannasimon.com
Date: Jun 2010
First-class chardonnay from the Piccadilly Valley in South Australia ? as good a demonstration as there is of the quality being achieved in some of the vineyards in Australia chosen for their combination of cool climate and suitable soils. This …
Author: Jane Anson
Source: Business Destinations
Date: Jun 2010
Australia sells more wine than any other country in the influential UK wine market. But that doesn?t mean that it enjoys the best reputation ? its wines are frequently dismissed as being over-ripe, over-alcoholic and over-exposed.
And although Australia itself …
Author: James Halliday
Source: Australian Wine Companion 2010
Date: Jun 2010
Bright pale green-straw; as expected, an immaculately proportioned and balanced wine with great drive and impeccable line; all the vineyard and winemaker inputs are seamlessly welded, making flavour descriptors unnecessary.…
Author: Steven Spurrier
Source: Decanter
Date: Jun 2010
Brian Croser, partnered by the Cazes family of Lynch-Bages , and Champagne Bollinger, is behind this pure, precise wine, the star of my Chardonnay tasting at May’s Decanter New World Fine Wine Encounter.…
Author: Jeremy Oliver
Source: The Australian Wine Annual 2009
Date: Jun 2010
Very youthful and gangly, but an excellent chardonnay in the waiting. It’s spicy and floral, with a waxy presence of melon and grapefruit, apple and pear, with undertones of stonefruit, fig and creamy vanilla oak. Long and chalky, it’s austere …
Author: Peter Forrestal
Source: Qantas
Date: Jun 2010
Two of the country’s finest chardonnays come from this Adelaide Hills vineyard – the outstanding 2004 Petaluma Tiers and this sublime white. It’s fine, subtle yet complex with nutmeggy oak and purity of fruit. Smoothly viscous and tight, finishing with …
Author: Windsor Dobbin
Source: Travel & Living Issue 37
Date: Jun 2010
From the winemaker’s family vineyard in the Piccadilly Valley of the Adelaide Hills, this is indisputably one of Australia’s finest chardonnays. Barrel-fermented and lees-stirred, it has wonderful varietal character with superb fruit assisted by subtle oak.
Drink with free-range roast …
Author: Fergus McGhie
Source: Canberra Times
Date: Jun 2010
Sometimes, you feel spoilt being asked to review wines. Drinking this chardonnay is one such occasion. Made by Brian Croser, it comes from his family’s vineyard in the Adelaide Hills. every chardonnay technique has been applied in the making, yet …
Author: Matthew Jukes & Tyson Stelzer
Source: Best Wines of 2009 - Taste Food & Wine 2009
Date: Jun 2010
There are only a handful of wines in Australia where just one word will do to convey the seriousness and romance of the contents of the bottle?When Brian Croser planted the Tiers vineyard in the Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide …
Author: Tyson Stelzer
Source: WBM
Date: Jun 2010
This wine is improving incrementally even dure the two months since its release. Vanilla pod, almond meal, star anise and fresh orange rind converge in incredible concentration and persistence. It’s very Burgundian in shape, with ultra-fine, minerally acidity and sensational …
Author: Fergus McGhie
Source: Canberra Times
Date: Jun 2010
Made by Brian Croser, the Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay comes from his family’s vineyard in the Adelaide Hills. Every chardonnay technique has been applied in the making, yet the power of the fruit remains. It is focused and pure, with an …
Author: Windsor Dobbin
Source: Luxury Travel & Style
Date: Jun 2010
Former Petaluma chief winemaker Brian Croser has linked with the family that owns Bollinger Champagnes, and the Cazes family of Bordeaux, to produce site-specific Tapanappa wines of the highest quality. They come from the Whalebone vineyard in Wrattonbully, Croser’s family …
Author: James Halliday
Source: Wine Companion Newsletter
Date: Jun 2010
Bright pale green-strawl as expected, an immaculately proportioned and balanced wine with great drive and impeccable line; all the vineyard and winemaker inputs are seamlessly welded, making flavour descriptors unnecessary.…
Author: Jancis Robinson
Source: Financial Times
Date: Jun 2010
…Brian Croser’s Tappanappa, Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2007 Adelaide Hills was a tense, introvert and lime-scented wine…
Inquiring subsequently about how exactly the Tappanappa wine had been made, I found that the yeast had been a single strain isolated from a …
Author: Ralph Kyte Powell
Source: The Age
Date: Jun 2010
The Tapanappa colaboration brings together local legend Brian Croser and French wine identities Jean-Michel Cazes and Arnould d’Hautefeuille. The result is high-quality wines such as this smoothly complex Adelaide Hills chardonnay. Stone fruit, grapefruit, mealy notes and nutty oak combine …
Author: Huon Hooke
Source: Good Living - Sydney Morning Herald
Date: Jun 2010
Brian Croser has made a beautiful Adelaide Hills chardonnay, delicate and understated but with great flavour complexity and refined texture. Bright and clean with grapefruit, nutty and smoky nuances, properly dry and focused.…
Author: Chris Shanahan
Source: Sunday Canberra Times
Date: Jun 2010
Croser’s wine, from the Tiers Vineyard (planted 1979) is an altogether more subtle wine ? luxurious but with finesse and a seamless integration of the fruit and barrel ferment and maturation elements. It just needs time in bottle.…
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Source: Gourmet Traveler WINE
Date: Jun 2010
A superb chardonnay by maestro Brian Croser. It’s about understated complexity; fruit, oak, malolactic and lees characters are in harmony, with concentration and finesse. All it needs is time; if it evolves like the ’05 it will be great.…
Author: Lester Jesberg
Source: Winewise
Date: Jun 2010
Certain politicians like to use the word “un-Australian” in a derogatory sense. I’ll use it here in a very positive way. May Australian chardonnays are driven by fruit at the expense of complexity. Relatively few combine those two key aspects …
Author: Jancis Robinson
Source: JancisRobinson.com
Date: Jun 2010
Notably sweet, smooth texture. Just the merest hint of coffee and spice (perhaps because of the Vosges oak used? ? new and old). Good acidity but texture is really is its strong suit, from vines planted in 1979. Some creamy …
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