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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 is of ripe peach and cream bordering on ripe fig. The subtle Vosges oak, cedar, and spice is underlaid by the significant yeast-lees brioche, the flavours echoing the aromas. Typical Tiers’ sweet fruit taste and texture are offset by a determined natural acid and quince finish.

2025 Tiers Chardonnay is “a very warm vintage version of a unique wine defined by the distinguished Tiers Vineyard terroir”.

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 terroir.

The 2025 Tiers 1.5M has the Tiers green-yellow colour, very similar to its older vine sibling. The aroma is of ripe peach, pear, and dried fig, with a slight brioche and cinnamon complexity from the yeast and oak. The flavour is full, rich and ripe with the hallmark Tiers’ significant texture. The aroma is intense, complex and fresh. The flavour reflects the aroma, with persistent length. The Tiers texture and fruit sweetness is offset by the grapefruit acid and quince finishing cut of the Tiers 1.5m Vineyard.

The 2025 Tiers 1.5M ripened in dry and sunny conditions and has defined a warm vintage expression of Chardonnay from the unique and distinguished Tiers 1.5M Vineyard terroir.

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 ripe yellow peach and fresh fig. The flavours are ripe and rich with trademark significant texture and despite the warm year, the acid provides a cleansing finish to balance the ripe fruit flavours.

The product of a unicorn vintage, 2025 Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay demonstrates the resilience of the Piccadilly Valley terroir expression in extreme climatic conditions.

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This 2021 Definitus special bottling of Foggy Hill Pinot Noir has a translucent, medium intensity cerise colour.
The aroma is immediately of rose florals and wild strawberries. There is an underlying more complex aroma of ripe blackberries and Chinese 5 spice definitive of the Foggy Hill terroir.
The flavours are fresh and intense. Because of the very moderate alcohol (12.3%) the wine is lilting in the mouth but with a significant texture to compliment the characteristic Foggy Hill earthy, spicey complexity. The tannins are fine but pervasive and the cool year 2021 Definitus will benefit from a decade or longer of bottle age.

2014 Tapanappa Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is the product of a slightly warmer than average vintage from the very cool Foggy Hill Parawa site.

2014 vintage was defined by the poor fruit set and low yields in an otherwise perfect growing season for Pinot Noir.

The colour is dense by Pinot Noir standards reflecting the sunny vintage effect on berry pigmentation and the effect of plucking the leaves from around bunches before veraison.

The fruit aroma is of spicy, sappy, ripe cherries with the floral notes that contribute to Pinot’s “peacock’s tail”. 2014 has contributed one of the most aromatic Foggy Hill Pinot Noirs yet.

The palate similarly has intense fruit flavours that persist reflecting the aromas but with very definite tannin structure that provides a savoury finish.

2014 Tapanappa Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is “a pure expression of the unique Parawa, Fleurieu Peninsula terroir”.

2022 Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is a low crop, cool vintage expression of the Foggy Hill terroir.

The wine colour is medium intensity and cerise purple hue.

The aroma is fresh and delicately rose floral with notes of macerated mixed berries and an underlying spice complexity. The Foggy Hill ripe plum terroir expression is discernible. The aroma effect is brooding and indicates long ageing potential.

The flavours are subtle, fresh, intense and complex with a core of sweet fruit and long finish.

The tannins are significant but are soft round and refined.

This Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is the reflection of the perfectly ripe cool climate fruit from which it was made and is a “typical expression of the unique Foggy Hill terroir.”

Tapanappa 2012 Whalebone Vineyard Merlot Cabernet Franc is absolutely typical of this unique blend and reflects its synergy with the special terroir of the Whalebone Vineyard.

The wine is translucent and vibrant in colour and the aromas are floral and of fine leather, cedar and spice. This is an elegant wine of great fruit and tannin finesse contributed by the Cabernet Franc built around a dense core of sweet fruit from the Merlot.

2010 was a wonderful warm and dry vintage, perfect conditions for the Whalebone Vineyard terroir to elicit the very best from the old Merlot and Cabernet Franc vines.

The warm vintage Merlot from Whalebone Vineyard had very ripe plum and spice with the big blocky tannin structure that is only apparent when Merlot is grown in a highly suited terroir and a warm vintage.

The Cabernet Franc was much more floral and delicate with a whisp of the leafiness for which this noble variety is renowned. The tannin structure of the Cabernet Franc was silky and fine grained.

The combination of the Merlot and Cabernet Franc has a synergy for which the wines of the “right bank” of Bordeaux have long been famed. In a rare departure from the normal the Cabernet Franc is the dominant part of the blend, 58% and also dominates the aroma, flavour and tannin structure of the 2010 Tapanappa Merlot- Cabernet Franc. The foundation of this wine is solidly Merlot and the superstructure ethereally Cabernet Franc.

2018 Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay is a ripe fruit expression of the unique Piccadilly Valley terroir from a warm vintage.

Pale lemon in colour, 2018 Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay has a ripe peach and fig aroma and flavours to match. The subtle complexity of marzipan and vanilla oak

complements the fresh fruit.

The hallmark Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay texture is followed by a long after taste with a slight savoury quince finish. The Piccadilly Valley has clearly confirmed its status as

home to “distinguished sites” and the 2018 Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay “is an exquisite expression of a unique Australian terroir.”

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Intense carmine colour typical of Shiraz but still vaguely translucent. The aroma is of blackberry and spiced plums, some anise with hints of fine leather. This is a big wine in structure and flavour with determined tannins to backup the sumptuous sweet fruit middle.

This 2017 Shiraz is a wine for the ages, worthy of decades in the cellar.

It is the pure expression of the unique Shining Rock Vineyard terroir.

2020 Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is a low-crop, cool vintage expression of the Foggy Hill terroir.

The wine is translucent with a purple-red hue. The aroma is floral with dark plum and blueberry fruits and the faint spice of stalks.There is an exotic Chinse 5 spice aroma and the oak provides a complexing char note and all of this is reflected in the flavour of the wine. The flavours are rich and complex and the tannins noticeable but refined.

2020 Tapanappa Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is the reflection of the perfectly ripe fruit from which it was made and is a “typical expression of the unique Foggy Hill terroir.”

This 2018 Definitus special bottling of Foggy Hill Pinot Noir has intense cerise colour. The aroma is of complex, ripe dark fruits, black and blueberries, faint cassis and hints of floral notes. The flavours are rich, ripe and dense with plum to compliment the characteristic Foggy Hill earthy, spicey complexity. The tannins are fine but pervasive and the warm year 2018 Foggy Hill “Definitus” will benefit from a decade or longer of bottle age.

The Whalebone Vineyard terroir exerts its strength in the Cabernet Shiraz blend as a combination of smokey Eucalypt, anise and fresh earth aromas and flavours.

The Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard 2006 Cabernet Shiraz has the fruit sweet core of ripe mulberry and blackberry provided by Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz in the slightly warmer than average 2006 vintage. The Cabernet Franc provides a floral aroma note and silky tannin texture and has much greater influence than the 10% component suggests. The 2006 vintage is notable for its definite but fine-grained tannins.

Dishes based on spring lamb lightly roasted with thyme or rare pigeon breast naturally balance and amplify the structure and flavour of Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard 2006 Cabernet Shiraz.

Even in the warmest vintages, Foggy Hill produces moderate sugar grapes at full maturity.

The 2017 DEFINITUS is no exception and at 13.5% alcohol the flavours and aromas are evidently supported by water not alcohol.

The 2017 DEFINITUS is of moderate colour intensity and crimson hue. The aromas and flavours are delicate and ethereal with violet ad roses floral, ripe strawberries and dark fruits and an earthy terroir nuance.

The palate structure sets DEFINITUS apart. The texture is silky and creamy but the finishing tannins are firm and sandy.

DEFINITUS is a pure expression of a unique terroir and will benefit from a decade or longer of bottle age.

Tapanappa 2014 Cabernet Shiraz is an intense cool year wine with vibrant Cabernet cassis fruit and refined but determined tannins. It is a juicy wine with loads of primary varietal fruit.

The colour is medium density, purple edged and very bright, the aroma is of cedar and spicy Cabernet and the dusty terroir nuances of the Whalebone Vineyard. The Shiraz plays a role in filling out the middle palate. The core of the wine is sweet but the finish is of gentle savoury tannin. 2014 Tapanappa Cabernet Shiraz is a keeper!

The colour of the 2022 Tapanappa Eden Valley Riesling is pale green-yellow. Typical of Eden Valley Riesling, the 2022 Tapanappa Riesling is jasmine floral with a hint of anise. The bath-powder aroma also has an edge of delicate tea rose.

The palate weight is fine and delicate and despite the late picking, almost austere, with a slight talcum dryness and a mouth-watering acid finish.

Tapanappa 2022 Eden Valley Riesling is reflection of the Riesling variety grown in a perfectly suited terroir of a “distinguished site” vineyard.

Tapanappa 2012 Cabernet Shiraz is a big ripe wine reflecting the small crop, warm and early 2012 vintage.
The colour is deep and purple edged, the aroma is an amalgam of black currant Cabernet, spicy anise Shiraz and the earthy, smokey terroir character of the Whalebone Vineyard. The core of the wine is sweet but the finish is of gentle savoury tannin.
This wine is a pure expression of the unique Whalebone Vineyard terroir.

2017 Tiers 1.5m Chardonnay is a pristine and exquisite expression of the Tiers unique terroir from a great vintage.

Pale green gold in colour, 2017 Tiers 1.5m Chardonnay has fresh ripe stone fruit aromas and flavours. The subtle complexity of yeast lees and oak complements the fresh fruit.

The hallmark Tiers Chardonnay texture is followed by a long after taste with a slight savoury quince finish.

The 14 year-old Tiers 1.5m Vineyard has clearly confirmed its status as a “distinguished site” and the 2017 Tapanappa Tiers 1.5M Chardonnay “is a pure expression of a unique Australian terroir.”

Of the past three wonderful vintages in Tiers Vineyard, 2022 was the coolest.

The colour is pale lemon green. The aroma is of perfectly ripe Chardonnay fruit, ripe nectarine with a hint of flint smoke, yeast cashew and oak spice. The flavour is intense and fresh with fruit sweetness and a substantial texture.

The edge of acid and the slight astringency and bitterness of the grapefruit finish, perfectly offset the fruit sweetness and texture that are the hallmarks of Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay.