Winery: Tapanappa
Region: Fleurieu Peninsula
Variety: Pinot Noir
Your Wine Guy says:
The Foggy Hill Pinot Noir is sourced from a specially selected site chosen by Brian Croser (formerly of Petaluma), Jean-Michel Cazes (Chateau Lynch-Bages) Societe Jacques Bollinger (the parent company of Champagne Bollinger) who make up the Tapanappa partnership. The wine is sourced from a brilliant planting of vines at the southern tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula that are already showing stunning power and intensity at such a young age.
The Foggy Hill has a very complex nose of spice, cherry, dark berry fruits that combine very well with integrated toasty oak characters. This wine has a beautiful texture on the palate with lovely spicy nuances. A severely limited production run of this wine means that around 600 cases were made, Your Wine Guy is proud to be able to offer you this very high-quality Australian Pinot Noir.
93 Points YWG Drink to 2015
Interesting wine this - it tastes distinctly different to most Australian Pinot. There’s plenty of sweet spicy oak on opening (it subsides) and then come red fruits with some dark cherry. Medium bodied, fresh and firm with particularly attractive kitten tongue tannins. There’s some alcohol warmth too, although it’s not distracting, and a firmer sappy undercurrent underwriting its serious structure and nature. At the moment it looks somewhat disjointed - but I’m guessing it will pull itself together pretty well. Clearly a promising site for Pinot Noir.
91+ points Drink 2011 - 2017 Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
The winemaker says:
Tapanappa Pinot Noir from Foggy Hill Vineyard is of medium plus colour intensity and cerise in hue. The aromas are ripe and exotically fragrant of preserved black cherries and mulled wine spices with a ripe mulberry component. The flavours are rich, sweet and spicy, and are balanced against the tannin and acid without the interference of alcohol. The tannins are significant, but soft and savoury, and the whole wine is melded into a complex but seamless fabric of aromas, flavours, and tastes and
texture. This is the second exciting wine of the new Pinot Noir terroir at Maylands Farm at Parawa at the apex of the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. Brian Croser Winemaker